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 ...

An IPv6 CE Router is a customer edge router intended for use in a home or small office environment. The router connects the end-user network to a service provider network and forwards packets not ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've had an ER-X as my router (connected to my ISP's fibre ONT) for a few years now. When it works, it's great, but it has this fun habit of dying without any outward indication of why; the link ...

When designing service-edge routers, most engineers focus their attention on the integration of protocols. However, an often overlooked, but critical component to designing service provider edge ...