Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday unveiled its 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS) core routing platform in a bid to take on rivals Cisco and Juniper Networks, the current leaders in the US$4 billion market.

Looking to broaden the market for its terabit routing portfolio, Avici Systems last week unveiled its smallest core router, a device intended to address the needs of carriers expanding IP backbones to ...

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, ...

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A price war has erupted over high-end routers that power the Internet's core, putting pressure on Cisco Systems just as it begins to push its latest and greatest product for this small but important ...