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Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:20:23 -0700
It's _WAY_ more than a billion boxes at this point. Owen On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of $30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement that radically reduced the cost per route add? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary, (continued)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary William Herrin (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary William Herrin (Mar 16)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 16)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Geoff Huston (Mar 12)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Leo Bicknell (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary William Herrin (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Randy Bush (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Geoff Huston (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Randy Bush (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Leo Bicknell (Mar 13)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 14)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Eugen Leitl (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Eugen Leitl (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary William Herrin (Mar 15)
- Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Eugen Leitl (Mar 15)