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This helps clear up last year’s questions about how these two router vendors would respond to the growing P-OTS market. While still supporting the Optical Transport Network in spirit, their focus will be on this core MPLS switch, or label-switched router, or packet transport switch, or — whatever you want to call it.

But Cisco 640-802 is pulling as much as possible into one box, whereas Juniper’s PTX is a separate system that’s meant to sit alongside a T-series core router and an optical transport shelf.

That’s going to present some opportunities for one-upmanship. Cisco is already boasting about the benefits of integration. “You don’t burn router ports going from a core router to a packet transport box” or an optical shelf, says Suraj Shetty, Cisco’s vice president of service provider marketing.

One important factor for both companies is that this label-switched router represents a completely new market for the 640-802 certification exam router vendors and might be the easier direction for packet/optical convergence, says Ray Mota, an analyst with ACG Research .

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