By Lisa Burroughes, 10 November 1999 18:13
NEWS Nortel has developed a chip that it claims will be able to replace traditional routers and significantly reduce the costs of networking. The chip has been designed in association with Intel, and is expected to be shipping globally within three months. A spokesman for the company argued that by putting routing software on a chip it can produce and distribute the product more cheaply. "It will make running a network more efficient because IT staff would be able to design the network in a less router-centric way," he added. Nortel has already halved the prices of its own routers and it says it expects rival company Cisco to follow suit.
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