The Cisco 12000 series gigabit switch router (GSR) family is Cisco's premier gigabit routing platform for service providers. The product provides a cost-effective solution for implementing high bandwidth, packet-optimized, core backbones. The GSR series combines carrier class design with Cisco’s proven software technology in delivering a reliable and scalable (bandwidth and performance) system to meet the exponential growth in data traffic. The GSR series provides an industry-leading breadth of interfaces including DS3, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Dynamic Packet Transport, OC-3/STM-1 and OC-12/STM-4, Packet over SONET (POS) and ATM, and OC-48/STM-16 POS.
Cisco 12008
- 40 Gbps switching capacity
- High density broadband interfaces per system (up to 84 DS3 to 7 OC48/STM16 per rack)
- Compact design, ideal solution for high port densities per 7 ft rack (up to 252 DS3 to 21 OC48/STM16 per rack)
- 60 Gbps switching capacity
- High density broadband interfaces per system (up to 132 DS3s, 11 OC48/STM16 per system)
- 80 Gbps switching capacity
- High density broadband interfaces per system (up to 180 DS3s, 15 OC48/STM16 per system)
- Future support for OC-192/STM 64 interfaces
- Scalable Performance
– Innovative switch fabric design supports virtual output queues (VoQs) to eliminate head-of-line blocking (HOLB) and increase overall system efficiency; supports partial fulfillment for multicast traffic
– Distributed architecture delivers scalable Layer 3 switching performance through intelligent line cards (LCs) that can be added incrementally
– Distributed architecture delivers scalable Layer 3 switching performance through intelligent line cards (LCs) that can be added incrementally
- Scalable Services
– Industry leading Cisco IOS Software – State-of-the-art queuing and congestion management techniques: random early detection (RED), weighted RED (WRED), and deficit round robin (DRR) that provide an enhanced weighted fair queuing (WFQ) mechanism
– Smooth scalability to OC-192/STM 64 infrastructures
– Smooth scalability to OC-192/STM 64 infrastructures
- Carrier-class design with redundancy in all key system components
Competitive Products
- Juniper: M40
