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November 14th, 2008

Cisco on Tuesday announced a new router that pushes the envelope of networking technology in the “zettabyte era.”The Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series, or ASR 9000, is designed to deliver a massive-scale, nonstop video experience and a reduced carbon footprint. With its latest router, Cisco is promising to increase the speed, longevity, services, richness and efficiency of the network edge. The product seeks to answer the demand spurred by the massive spike in video and data traffic across wired, cable and mobile networks.

“The Cisco ASR 9000 offers service providers tremendous scalability and a services-optimized architecture that truly sets a new benchmark in the industry for carrier Ethernet systems for the zettabyte era,” said Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s service provider technology group. This platform, he continued, will be used as the foundation for video and mobility data growth and has been specifically optimized to deliver video and rich media.

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