Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that the new 7950 XRS Internet router is capable of delivering 16 terabits of data per second. “That’s about 2.5 million HD video streams every tick of the second hand,” notes CNN.
This makes the router five times faster and 66 percent more power efficient than the current industry leaders.
The 7950 XRS has been intelligently programmed to treat traffic according to the type of page. The router allocates power based on the content of the page, shifting more bandwidth to video traffic while only increasing bandwidth to regular Web pages when a user clicks a link.
The product marks Alcatel-Lucent’s debut in the core router market, which has traditionally been dominated by Cisco and Juniper.
Core routing represents a $4 billion a year industry, and Alcatel-Lucent stands in good position to pick up a decent market share, even if it is not an industry high on turnover.
“Service providers know us now, and they trust us,” says Basil Alwan, president of IP networks for Alcatel-Lucent. The company hopes that this familiarity may help convince the likes of AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to consider switching to the new router.
Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that the new 7950 XRS Internet router is capable of delivering 16 terabits of data per second. “That’s about 2.5 million HD video streams every tick of the second hand,” notes CNN.
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