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Cisco’s $250 Million Routing Platform Based on Linux

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Cisco’s new routing platform has the potential to change the how enterprise view their WAN edge and Internet gateways in their network.  The ASR 1000 router debuts Cisco’s new IOS XE operating system which uses Linux at it core.

Cisco’s new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 platform is a WAN (define)aggregation platform that includes firewall, Session Border Control (SBC), VPN and other core networking features.

It is designed to have the speed and efficiency of a application specific integrated circuit with the flexibility of a microprocessor.

One Response to “Cisco’s $250 Million Routing Platform Based on Linux”

  1. GPL Watcher Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 7:11 am

    And Cisco appears to be in violation of the GPL by not making their code freely available - who is going to take them on?

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