United States : Cisco packs server and storage into branch office routers.Byline: Mamta03 Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. has announced a second generation of its Integrated Services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. Router (ISR (Interrupt Service Routine) Software routine that is executed in response to an interrupt. ) router, building a server and storage into the unit to allow its features to be updated remotely. Cisco shipped some seven million units of the first generation ISR, which tends to be used to provide services at branch office level. Five years on, the vendor claims to have developed a second generation with five times the performance. The ISR G2 comes with support for the encoding and decoding of video, but it also features embedded server hardware and one terabyte of on-board storage such that the unit is capable of providing local services - even when disconnected from the core network. Mark van Hoof hoof, horny epidermal casing at the end of the digits of an ungulate (hoofed) mammal. In the even-toed ungulates, such as swine, deer, and cattle, the hoof is cloven; in the odd-toed ungulates, such as the horse and the rhinoceros, it is solid. , product Manager of Cisco's access routing technology group said the hardware on the router is "comparable to a high-end branch office server" and can run embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. or Windows operating systems. Van Hoof said this allows organisations to remotely roll-out updates to the router. Organisations investing in a fleet of ISR G2's, he said, can "pre-position prep·o·si·tion 1 n. Abbr. prep. A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, the hardware" in branches initially and pay to update the router with new software smarts at a later date. "That removes the need for a remote site visit when you add a new service," he said. "If you had over 1000 sites, and a remote site visit to update the firmware cost $1000 dollars per site, you've just saved a million dollars. So it's much easier with this router to show a more attractive return on investment for turning on new services." Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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