It's crunch time for Cisco Systems' next-generation core router--the company wants to recover ground lost to rival Juniper Networks. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

There was an incredible amount of hype leading up to Cisco's announcement of a new core router, the CRS-3. Typically, router announcements are not covered in detail by the mainstream press, but with ...

Cisco this week is upgrading its Internet core routers with the CRS-X, a system whose capacity is 10x that of what the initial CRS offered when introduced 10 years ago. The CRS-X, which will be ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Cisco Systems introduced upgrades to its family of core routers at the company's annual analyst conference here, but it shed no light on plans for a next-generation product many ...