new cisco router...

Cisco spent 500Million + in R&D on their new router..
The CRS-1.

It has "The first OC-768 interface" (~40 Gbps).
This beast takes up 3 full racks. Each line card can do 40Gbps. Total 
bandwidth: 90Tbps.

My boss had an interesting point, after reading that marketing people 
were mentioning VOIP. He said "if all 3 billion people in the world 
called each other, there'd only be a market for two of these things."

Pretty funny :)
This thing is amazing.. just thought I'd share, since I know there's a 
few network geeks on the list. Oh, and each processor has ~180 cores! 
<drool>

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2004/hd_052504.html

Can be yours for ~$450,000

-Charlie