Cisco-funded startup unveils breakthrough router, targets SDNs

A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN).

Compass-EOS has been quietly working on these problems for six years and is now ready for its formal launch with a product aimed at the service providers' core networks. The company has raised $120 million and spent more than half a decade developing a silicon-photonics-based router that would be faster, consume less power and is also more modular.

The Compass-EOS' technology is a new type of optical chip that allows the router to think at the speed of light — not at the speed of electrons. The result is faster, consumes less energy and takes up less space. All of these things will help network operators keep pumping more traffic over their infrastructure, especially as they deploying faster networks.

"They're making the backplane go faster" through the icPhotonics technology, says Eve Griliches, vice president of optical networking at ACG Research. "Midplane designs limit router capacity due to I/O interconnects. (Compass-EOS) targets the I/O interconnect and makes them as fast as the speed of light."

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