Edge router design begins with requirements similar to those of core routers, while adding a range of complex requirements. The big difference is that while core routers are designed with one purpose ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

Cisco has significant enhancements on tap for its edge routers, to support multiple services – such as Ethernet, frame relay, ATM and broadband aggregation – across a wider variety of platforms. The ...

Cisco’s 2008 extreme makeover continued this week with the introduction of an all-in-one edge router line designed to handle everything from deep packet inspection to VoIP traffic, and that’s aimed ...

First off, let me just thank everyone in advance for reading this post. There are several variables in this equation which will no doubt drive people crazy, but I am locked into them for at least the ...

At next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Juniper Networks will launch products that integrate mobile networks into its MX 3D Universal Edge routers and let third party vendors integrate ...

Nokia launches its 7730 Service Interconnect Router (SXR) platforms with a revolutionary approach to delivering the power and benefits of service routing into IP access and aggregation networks to ...

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Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

When designing service-edge routers, most engineers focus their attention on the integration of protocols. However, an often overlooked, but critical component to designing service provider edge ...