Cisco is expected to unveil a new service provider edge router on Nov. 11 that’s likely to succeed its aging 7600 series Ethernet platforms, according to an analyst’s report. Oppenheimer & Co. this ...

Service-edge routers must support both layer 2 traffic (which requires interoperability with frame relay and ATM devices) with the same level of service guarantees as layer 2 devices, as well as new, ...

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 ...

Three trends are currently driving the edge router market: IPTV, carrier Ethernet and multiservice networking. These are also the reasons why the edge router market will grow another 21% this year to ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

Cisco Systems Tuesday is taking the wraps off a new line of midrange routers that aim to bring high-performance services to the network edge. The new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) family comes ...

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 ...

Start-up Crescent Networks this week became the latest entrant into the edge-router field with a platform for delivery of routed network services to enterprises and service providers. The Chelmsford, ...

The researchers were hunting for samples of DarkNimbus, a backdoor linked to the MOONSHINE exploit kit which have both been ...