Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

["Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>]

Hmm; home equipment is, in many cases, much better than _industrial one_, if
you concern about price/perfoamce .

Good example - HD disks. Industrial SCSI disks are 2 steps behind home, IDE,
ones. Home made computer is,  in many cases, much better than industrial
SERVER, from DELL.

Reason is very simple - companies have a very high price competition in home
market, and it drives prices down. Industrial market is much more
conservative. Cisco vs Linksys was a very good example - 100$ vs 1000$,
doing _almost_ the same.

(I do not advocate an idea of PC Router).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com>
Cc: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras () e-gerbil net>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)


> > he also said something on the order of "let's not bother to discuss
using home
> > appliances to build a global network."
>
> Hmm actually I'm not so sure, the trend has been the opposite .. lots of
PCs
> instead of mainframes and dumb terminals and the Internet itself has been
about
> spreading out the networking rather than centralizing it.
>
> Todays 'home appliances' have computing power in excess of that of todays
> routing equipment, the shortcoming is only the implementation and I think
that
> is getting pretty close now to doing what we require at the low and medium
> end, and I dont see that high end is that difficult.. if the
implementation
> works its just a matter of scaling, can you buy linecards with their own
> backplane yet..? if not I cant see it being hard and if the demand
arises...
> Steve