Customer Requirements for Future Rotuers -- What's Next? Cisco Systems
Table of Contents
Challanges
- Growth/Performance
- Routing and IP scalability
- Reliability/Availability
- Mechanicals
- Service innovation
- Network system management
- Backbone Trunk Capacity (doubles every 6 months)
- Switch Rate
- Routing Processing/overhead functions
Today, there are FDDI, Fast Ethernet, HSSI, ATM, POSIP (Sonet/IP) on the 7X00
and FDDI, Fast Ethernet and ATM on the 4X00.
In the Future, packet over Sonet at higher rates, faster ATM (OC12),
Gigabit Ethernet, appropriate buffering and next generation router.
New Services
- Multimedia (CoS, QoS, multicast)
- VPN
Multicast stuff
- PIM, PIMv2
- DVMRP
- IGMP, IGMPv2
- filters, rate limiting
- focus on improved manageability and scaling
Network/Systems Management
- NetSys acquisition
- Partnership with other tools developers
- Flexible options for security, configuration, diagnostics, etc.
Recent Security Problems
- Close interaction with providers
- Traditional Responsiveness
- Considering "source address verification" techniques
- Experience being factored into future products