Nokia snatches clump of 16nm FinFETs, crafts 576 Tbps monster router

The router market might be in the doldrums, but that hasn't stopped Nokia spending big on drive silicon to drive its latest operator-scale router iron. At the heart of the company's just-announced 7950 Extensible Routing System XC is a packet processor, the FP4, that Nokia reckons can sail along at 2.4 Tbps. To get there, the …

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

I wonder if people like the NSA need something like this in ISP's data centres to copy US citizens private data at speed?

[l8gravely]

Because they put the new in the center... and the old still works to the edge

My old company did the same thing. They would come out with a big huge core router which would be supported bt the configuration management sofrware. It would drop into the network (phone companys and network providers) in the core to satisfy a bottleneck. The older gear would be pushed to the edge to give a performance boost there, since the costs were already paid. The costs include transitioning to a new management and configuration system which can provision the switch without problems.

Thats the reason why Nokia put this monster out, to make sure customers are locked into their system and have a path forward for more growth as needed.

[TheVogon]

BT are apparently using these already.

[Kernel]

"BT are apparently using these already."

Exactly these (7950XRS XC with FP4 cards) , or the earlier model 7950XRS with FP3?

The 7950XRS is in use in many parts of the world, but the XC version is, as I understand it from the article, a newer model that has just been released.

[inmypjs]

"The reason for so much capacity is multifold"

but, mostly porn.