Why is Ciscos distributed architecture crucial to network design?
Cisco’s 12400 Internet Router has the industry’s only distributed system architecture, enabling Cisco to deliver the highest scalability, performance, capacity, and flexibility. • Highest Scalability – Two times the capacity, three times as many 10G platforms and a two-fold improvement in PoP scalability, with the smallest form factor chassis and the highest capacity available for 10G Internet routing. • Only Guaranteed Priority Packet Delivery – The only systems that deliver priority-based congestion control, dedicated low latency queuing, and packet sequence integrity under all conditions required by premium services such as Voice over IP. • Highest Performance – Line rate performance for IP forwarding and MPLS switching in a fully loaded system with sustained throughput for all prefix sizes. A dedicated forwarding engine in each line card delivers 25% greater performance per slot than competitive solutions, with an industry-leading maximum of 375 million packets per second. • Reduce
