Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced its next-generation Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series, a new product family -- based on Cisco's latest QuantumFlow processor -- that it says delivers high-performance access and aggregation routing and switching capabilities, along with

The service provider routing and switching market is a big tent -- and both Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks have plenty of elbow room. Both vendors grew their share of the high-end routing and switching segment at double-digit clips