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their businesses with simpler, more cost- fellow and vice president of Systems Communications among others.
effective networks. Cisco’s strategy is Infrastructure, Google Cloud. “Facebook Optics for 400G and Beyond
based on development and investments in has been a strong advocate for network Building a new internet that can support
three key technology areas: silicon, optics disaggregation and open ecosystems, future digital innovation will depend on
and software. “Pushing the boundaries of launching key industry initiatives such as continued breakthroughs in silicon and
innovation to the next level — far beyond the Open Compute Project and the Telecom optics technologies. Cisco is unique in
what we experience today — is critical for Infrastructure Project to transform the the industry with advanced intellectual
the future and we believe silicon, optics networking industry,” said Najam Ahmad, property in both areas. As port rates
and software are the technology levers vice president, Network Engineering increase from 100G to 400G and beyond,
that will deliver this outcome,” said David at Facebook. “Cisco’s new Silicon One optics become an increasingly larger
Goeckeler, executive vice president and architecture is aligned with this vision, portion of the cost to build and operate
general manager of the Networking and and we believe this model offers network internet infrastructure. Cisco is investing
Security Business at Cisco. “Cisco’s operators diverse and flexible options organically to assure our customers that
technology strategy is not about the next- through a disaggregated approach.” as router and switch port rates continue to
generation of a single product area. We “Cisco is changing the economics of increase, optics will be designed to meet
have spent the past several years investing powering the Internet, innovating across the industry’s stringent reliability and
in whole categories of independent hardware, software, optics and silicon quality standards. Through the company’s
technologies that we believe will converge to help its customers better manage the qualification program, Cisco will test its
in the future — and ultimately will allow us operational costs to function on a larger optics to comply with industry standards
to solve the hardest problems on the verge scale for the next phase of the Internet,” and operate in Cisco – and non-Cisco
of eroding the advancement of digital said Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst hosts. With this program, customers can
innovation. This strategy is delivering the at ACG Research. “As we move to 2020, the utilize Cisco optics in applications where
most ambitious development project the timing of delivering operational efficiency non-Cisco hosts have been deployed and
company has ever achieved.” will be vital.” have confidence that the optics will meet
Introducing Cisco Silicon One – Introducing: Cisco 8000 Series Platform the reliability and quality standards that
Breakthrough Unified, Programmable Powered by Cisco Silicon One– Industry they have come to expect from Cisco. In
Silicon Architecture Leading Performance addition, as silicon and silicon photonics
The new Cisco Silicon One will be the The new Cisco 8000 series is the first advance, functions that were traditionally
foundation of Cisco’s routing portfolio platform built with Cisco Silicon One Q100. delivered in separate chassis-based
going forward, with expected near- It is engineered to help service providers solutions will soon be available in pluggable
term performance availability up to 25 and web-scale companies reduce the form factors. This transition has significant
Terabits per second (Tbps). This is the costs of building and operating mass- potential benefits for network operators in
industry’s first networking chip designed scale networks for the 5G, AI and IOT era. terms of operational simplicity. Cisco is
to be universally adaptable across service Standout features include: investing in silicon photonics technologies
provider and web-scale markets. Designed • Optimized for 400 Gbps and beyond, to effect architectural transitions in
for both fixed and modular platforms, starting at 10.8 Tbps in just a single datacenter networks and service provider
it can manage the most challenging rack unit networks that will drive down cost, reduce
requirements in a way that’s never been • Powered by the new, cloud-enhanced power and space, and simplify network
done before. The first Cisco Silicon One Cisco IOS XR7 networking operating operations.
‘Q100’ model surpasses the 10 Tbps system software, designed to simplify Changing the Economics of the Internet
routing milestone for network bandwidth operations and lower operational costs with Flexible Business Models
without sacrificing programmability, • Offers enhanced cybersecurity with Cisco also announced plans to offer flexible
buffering, power efficiency, scale or feature integrated trust technology for real- consumption models first established
flexibility. Traditionally, multiple types time insights into the trustworthiness with Cisco’s Optics portfolio, followed
of silicon with different capabilities are of your critical infrastructure by the disaggregation of the Cisco IOS
used across a network and even within a • Service providers gain more bandwidth XR7 software, and now including Cisco
single device. Developing new features scale and programmability to deliver Silicon One. This new model is highly
and testing can be lengthy and expensive. Tbps in even the most power and space adaptable and offers customers choice
Unified and programmable silicon will allow constrained network locations of components, white box, or integrated
for network operators to greatly reduce Global Customer Deployments and Trials systems to build their networks. This
costs of operations and reduce time-to- Cisco is working with a group of pioneering approach matches the evolving nature of
value for new services. “We look forward to customers on deployments and trials of operators selecting discrete or aggregated
working with Cisco as it enters the high- the Cisco 8000 Series. STC, the leading technology elements for their buildout and
end routing silicon space, collaborating telecom services provider in the Middle creates new economics of the Internet to
to help meet the next generation of East, Northern Africa region, marks the first provide significant business value.
network demands for higher speeds and customer deploying the new technology.
greater capacity,” said Amin Vahdat, Ongoing trials include Comcast and NTT

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