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Re: Routing System Scaling - Disaster Looming, but Medium-Term Fi xes Known
From: Bora Akyol <akyol () akyol org>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:54:20 -0700
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:21:47 -0700 To: "'smd () clock org'" <smd () clock org>, nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: Routing System Scaling - Disaster Looming, but Medium-Term Fi xes KnownFrom: smd () clock org [mailto:smd () clock org] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:59 AMSo, there are several Deaths of the Internet which are possible: -- it's too expensive to keep up with growth, so utilization-- we blow up on one of the scaling axes-- too much dynamism: poof, our memory isn't-- we blow up because while we can handle some of the-- inefficient/broken routing: we don't have the powerOne observation here, PC133 RAM is getting ever cheaper, as are CPUs. If routers were designed around commoditized components their COGm would be lower. Of course, the router vendors would no longer be able to get the premium prices for their boxen, either.
Do you think it is the CPU on the box that makes it expensive? Do you realize that most modern routers are ASIC based? Do you realize that there is no "off-the-shelf" hardware that can do OC192c forwarding? Cost of the control processor CPU is not what makes the price of the router expensive. Bora
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- RE: Routing System Scaling - Disaster Looming, but Medium-Term Fi xes Known Roeland Meyer (Apr 02)
- Re: Routing System Scaling - Disaster Looming, but Medium-Term Fi xes Known Bora Akyol (Apr 02)