Volpi said Cisco has no intention of selling Procket's routers, which vie with its newly announced CRS-1 core router. Instead, Cisco plans to integrate pieces of Procket's software design into the CRS-1 product family. Reading between the lines, Cisco's purchase of Procket's assets indicates that Cisco may not be as happy with its new router as it has publicly stated. At an investor conference Tuesday, Cisco CEO John Chambers said the company was satisfied with its routing strategy and would only buy a competing company to acquire talent. Volpi reiterated Cisco's commitment to the CRS-1.

"This acquisition says nothing about strongfit designers case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - aqua mandala the CRS-1 product," Volpi said, "We are extremely confident with the product as it is, We plan to ship the product in July as we had mentioned before, and there will be no features from the Procket acquisition integrated in the product.", Cisco introduced the CRS-1 only last month, after four years and $500 million spent developing it, The product, which is starting beta tests with customers now, probably won't start generating revenue for the company until next year, Cisco developed brand-new software for the product and also worked with IBM to develop a new chipset..

Since the CRS-1's release, critics have been quick to point out its shortcomings. Tony Li, a co-founder of Procket, told CNET News.com in a recent interview that the CRS-1 was inadequate for customers needing a scalable router. "Although it's significantly bigger than I had originally thought, it should still be an order of magnitude larger," said Li. "Customers that have vision and understand the growth of the Internet will probably be disappointed with this product.". Li worked at Cisco when it developed its flagship product, the GSR 12000. He also helped develop Juniper Networks' first core router. He left Procket earlier this year.

Before the CRS-1 was introduced, Cisco's core router offering was looking outdated compared with offerings from Juniper, Cisco's main competitor, Cisco introduced the GSR 12800 in December 2003, This latest incarnation of the company's long-lived GSR family of products started shipping to customers in the first quarter of 2004, Though the product quadruples performance on the GSR product line, it still uses all of Cisco's older technology, including its hardware and IOS software, Some analysts believed Cisco would use the Procket technology to help revamp the GSR product line, For the past few years, Cisco has taken each version of the GSR, including the GSR 12000 and the GSR 12400, and added new software features so strongfit designers case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - aqua mandala it can be used on the edge of the carrier network to aggregate lower-speed traffic coming into the core..

Analysts thought Cisco might be able to leverage its software and sophisticated chip design to revamp the GSR. From the beginning, Procket's strategy was to build an entire portfolio of routers--from smaller edge routers used to aggregate lower-speed traffic to ultra high-end routers used to shunt large volumes of traffic across the Internet--all based on the same chipsets and software technology. But Volpi said Procket's chipsets are useless to Cisco since they're built on a different architecture. Procket uses a shared-memory architecture, while Cisco has built its GSR and CRS routers on a centralized switch fabric architecture. He said Procket's software is also not well suited for any other routing products other than the CRS-1.