Yikes, a $500 million router?!? Thing had better cook me breakfast in the morning for that much cash... Oh, OK, it cost them $500 million in investments to develop, it doesn't cost $500 million to buy. Silly t-ready... get more coffee.

"The router, dubbed the Carrier Routing System-1 (CRS-1), is designed for carrier networks that handle the highest volumes of Internet traffic. It is the first product engineered by Cisco that will allow several boxes to be clustered together to function as a single router."