Where were you in 1998? Somewhere in one of our customers, a customer booted one of our 3640 routers, and it’s been running ever since without a reboot!
It’s been running since last century! Wow. It’s been running since around the time my daughter was born, and a good few years before my son was born! It’s been running longer that some of our competitors have been in existence, and longer than Juniper Networks has been a publicly traded company!
I learned this from an email was passed around my office, that highlighted this remarkable evidence of reliability. It made me wonder, in your data center, what is your longest running piece of Cisco data center equipment?
And it also reminded me of some of our best practices for network reliability, such as Cisco Smart Services, described in this short VoD:
So now for the evidence. As you can see from the “show version” Cisco IOS output below ……
The world is experiencing explosive Internet growth. This growth has challenged businesses to seek a network that adds stronger value and delivers greater intelligence, reliability, security and versatility.
The network is more important today than at any time in history for the future of business innovation. Businesses that invest in an intelligent network are making an investment toward their future.
What platform will your business use to drive that innovation?
Public Service Announcement: Call Before You Dig (or “10 Most Bizarre and Annoying Causes of Fiber Cuts”)
At Cisco, we strive to provide the utmost in reliability and are particularly pleased with the market leading reliability we have with our IOS XR operating system on our ASR 9000 system and CRS routers. Whether it’s video, mobility, broadband or voice, reliability is key for a good experience. However, while we, at Cisco enable the experience, providers are the ones who deliver it – and in doing so, there are huge number of network heroes and heroines to make it happen. When it comes to fiber optic cable, someone somewhere actually has to go out and dig the trenches or hang the fibers, regardless of weather, critters, or angry land owners. This week on Lightreading.com, we saw an article worth sharing from our friends over at Level 3 Communications, “The 10 Most Bizarre and Annoying Causes of Fiber Cuts.” Read More »
