Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

And in the darkness bind them – to next year's IT budgets

Cisco has launched a single chip architecture that it claims will work well in network routing and switching gear, and manage data better than existing processors in both categories.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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