Edge routers are designed primarily for best-efforts-oriented traffic, as opposed to the real-time strict service-level agreement (SLA) requirements of the new services edge. By adapting edge routers ...

Cisco has significant enhancements on tap for its edge routers, to support multiple services – such as Ethernet, frame relay, ATM and broadband aggregation – across a wider variety of platforms. The ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

Alcatel-Lucent this week unveiled significant upgrades to its edge lineup, highlighted by a new chip. Alcatel-Lucent this week joined an ongoing announcement party among major router vendors by ...