A router company is suing Cisco for patent infringement in 110 of its products, claiming damages of $8.8 billion. ConnecTel sued Cisco last year over a set of technologies that ConnecTel founder Allen Kaplan invented in the 1990s. But the lawsuit is the first time it has named specific routing and switching products and monetary damages. Among the products named are Cisco's new Carrier Routing Systems core router technology; certain models of the 12000 series Internet routers; models of the Catalyst 6500 and 4000 series switches; discontinued products, like the LightStream 1010 ATM switches; and Cisco's IOS routing software. At the heart of the complaint is an intelligent data routing system that can choose the best data path and transmission method in real time, based on multiple factors including bandwidth, availability, security and the user's priority, according to the complaint. Kaplan applied for patents on the technology in 1996.

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