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Re: The Making of a Router


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:49:59 -0500

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:37:52 +0000, Faisal Imtiaz said:

e.g. If someone says I need a 10g interface, why is it automatically assumed
that the router is going to be running @ Full Line Rate ?

It may not be full line rate - but it's a pretty sure bet that you plan
to run it at a fairly high percentage duty cycle, either right now or in the
fairly near future.

If you weren't, you'd have bought a 1G interface instead.

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