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VALERIE ST JOHN: From the beautiful industry briefing center here at Cisco, welcome to TechWise TV. I'm Valerie St John along with Cisco Solutions experts Robb Boyd and Jimmy Ray Purser. Hey guys. Our focus today, the ASR 1000, revolution on the network edge. And by the year 2011, global IP traffic is expected to reach 29 Exabytes per month. That's the equivalent, get this, of 144 times the entire world's printed matter, six times every word ever spoken, or 7.25 billion DVDs streaming online. It equates to more than 1,100 times the amount of information supported by the US internet backbone in 2000, that's less than a decade ago, guys, a lot of IP traffic. Here's a softball question for you, Robb. We've been getting along just fine, why do we need the ASR 1000?

ROBB BOYD: Well, I think you mentioned a lot of those same points in your open. The idea here is, obviously, things continue to change. I think the number one thing driving usage on the internet right now, quite frankly, is video and we see that proven over and over and over again. So you need something that's not just about bandwidth though, it's about how do we serve these things up in a really reliable consistent manner because so many companies are building their entire presence connected to the communications and stuff that they can't afford for these things to not be available or not operate at the speeds and with the reliability that they have come to expect. What's really interesting about the box, the ASR 1000 and the ingenuity that went into it and that we're going to dive into, I was just blown away by this. You mentioned some wonderful stats, I've got one for you as well.

VALERIE ST JOHN: Okay.

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