Trefis submits:
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), which competes with Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) in the networking equipment business, recently announced a new generation of core routers called CRS-3. Carrier Routing System 3 (CRS-3) will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 322 Terabits per second, much higher than existing core routers today.
Core Routers are for Internet Service Providers
R. Scott Raynovich submits:
Cisco (CSCO) succeeded in generating an enormous amount of hype for today’s announcement of a new core router, and was able to raise the level of interest to a crescendo.
The bottom line is that this is an impressive and important upgrade of Cisco’s core router product, but it was not "revolutionary," as billed by Cisco and many press mavens. It is, in fact, an important upgrade in capacity to reinforce Cisco’s market position as the leader in core routing technology.
Neil Carvin submits:
This post provides updated Cash Management, Growth, Profitability and Value metrics and our Financial Gauge scores for Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO). The metrics were calculated using data in Cisco’s financial reports, including the latest earnings announcement and the formal 10-Q report.
We have already examined the Income Statement for fiscal 2010’s second quarter, which ended 23 January 2010. Cisco Systems earned $0.30 per share, on a GAAP basis, in this quarter, up 23 percent from $0.26 in the second quarter of the previous year. On a non-GAAP basis, Cisco’s earnings rose from $0.32 to $0.40 per share.
Shlomi Cohen submits:
I am adding to my portfolio an Israeli company that provides bandwidth management solutions, especially on cellular networks, Allot Communications (ALLT). At the same time, I am removing Incredimail (MAIL), after making a profit of 58% in nine months, and I do so just before the release of the fourth quarter results, probably this week, as the stock has shown continuous weakness since reaching a peak of almost $11 in the summer. I believe the weakness results from the share sales by one of the founders, Yaron Adler, who is no longer a director, and / or because of a large acquisition the company is about to make.
Allot provides solutions for managing loads with systems that do optimization through what is known in the professional jargon as DPI (deep packet inspection), which means monitoring the content on the networks and deciding on priorities and allocation of bandwidth to users according to the policies of the service provider. For example, the provider will prefer to allocate more bandwidth to a business customer, who pays a great deal of money, when he is conducting video conference calls over the IP network, and less to a user watching a clip on YouTube for pleasure via a smartphone.
Tate Dwinnell submits:
The internet changing news from Cisco (CSCO) the tech world has been anxiously awaiting was unveiled today. Cisco’s CRS-3 router has been heralded by CEO John Chambers as a system that can download the Library of Congress in a second, stream every movie made in four minutes and allow simultaneous video calls by every single person in China. It will be available at a cost of $90K in the 3rd quarter of this year. Mighty impressive, but let’s see what the tech experts have to say. I thought I’d do a run down of some of the reactions to the big announcement today.
Sam Diaz submits:
Cisco (CSCO) made a significant announcement today in its effort to revamp the Internet as we know, launching a new networking router that has the power and the capacity to handle the demands of the next generation Internet.
The product is the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, which is designed to be the “foundation” of the next-generation Internet, one that can set the pace for video growth. The device promises to more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the closest competing system, with up to 322 terabits per second. How fast is that? The company said it enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second.
Gregory Ness submits:
When VMware (VMW) entered the production data center, it was the beginning of a massive IT disruption with profound implications for careers, vendors and the next tech innovation cycle, driven by deep reductions in network operating expenses and equally uplifting increases in network flexibility and intelligence.
For every server that is purchased and installed, management costs increase exponentially. Matt Eastwood, vice president, enterprise server research for Framingham, Mass.,-based IDC says that a penny saved in initial cost is a dollar spent on management. "IT pros are always interested in getting the best deal that they can when they purchase new equipment. But what they are beginning to realize is that the cost of maintaining a server is five to seven times the purchase price."- Brian Kraemer, SearchDataCenter.com Feb 2006
optionMONSTER submits:
By Bryan McCormick
Last Friday we posted a "tree map" of the Technology SPDR (XLK) exchange-traded fund and noted that, with a weighting of more than 20 percent in the S&P 500, the SPX would have a hard time getting anywhere on the upside without its participation. In one week, we have seen a number of significant gains in the sector that I think will be immediately apparent visually.
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