It is the need for speed. Lawrence Roberts thinks that the new flow router is the innovation to achieve that necessary speed for the internet:

“…Instead of sending data through smaller packets, Anagran’s FR-1000 Intelligent Flow Router attempts to manage information by larger groups of related packets, called flows, and uses a technique to give proper priority to larger flows of information while capping how much of the network’s resources they can use.”

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The price tag on the router is seventy thousand ($70,000) dollars. Mr Robert’s company, Anagran, is in a marketplace with some giants of technology: Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. It has to be significant innovation to take market share from these leaders in the technology sector.

Catherine Forsythe

[tags]lawrence roberts, speed, anagran, flow router, juniper networks, cisco systems, innovation[/tags]