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Re: router lifetime
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Curtis Maurand wrote:
On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote:How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment?For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the OS, tho it is not uncommon to see companies still on XP and IE6.Hell, we still have Windows 2000 and IE6.
People tend to want/expect faster graphics performance, faster CPUs, more RAM for bigger (or more bloated) applications.
A router handling T1 aggregation (i.e. cisco 7206, PA-MC-T3, M13 mux) 10 years ago will still handle T1 aggregation today (assuming you still have T1 customers). Over that time period, the only major change is that with routing table growth, routers that were able to handle full routes no longer can...so you either have to upgrade the NPE board to one that can hold 512MB or more or give up full routes. And with the widebank28 muxes, you just have to replace the mux controller cards every few years as they tend to burn out.
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Current thread:
- RE: router lifetime, (continued)
- RE: router lifetime Brandon Kim (Oct 02)
- Re: router lifetime jim deleskie (Oct 02)
- Re: router lifetime Mark Smith (Oct 03)
- Re: router lifetime Franck Martin (Oct 03)
- RE: router lifetime Brandon Kim (Oct 03)
- Re: router lifetime Chris Woodfield (Oct 03)
- Re: router lifetime Patrick Stueck (Oct 02)
- Re: router lifetime Jon Lewis (Oct 04)