The full-rack Cisco 12416 is based on the same chassis as the Cisco 12016. With the switch fabric upgrade kit, a Cisco 12016 can be field upgraded to a Cisco 12416. A single Cisco 12416 Internet router can fit in a standard rack. Two Cisco 12410 Internet routers can fit in a standard rack. Both models are currently in customer trials.
All products are orderable now.
Both products will ship 1Q01. Alternatively, current customers of Cisco 12016 routers may upgrade the switch fabric to increase the Cisco 12016 switching capacity to support 10 Gbps line cards. The Cisco 12016 switch fabric upgrade kit will be available for order in 1Q01. A. Cisco will continue to build on its market and technology leadership by bringing IP and optical technologies together through an IP-based optical control plane and by continuing to develop innovative technologies such as VSR to accelerate the evolution of the Internet. These line cards offer line rate performance for IP forwarding and MPLS switching in a fully loaded system with sustained throughput for all prefix sizes.