> From: Danny McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I suspect one way to look at this is to ask what's going to break first?
According to what I'm hearing, it's ISP's wallets.
We can certainly build boxes with bigger/faster memory arrays (we need faster
if stabilization time is to be constant in real-time, while the table itself
keeps getting bigger), but it will cost a small boat of money for a core
router with mega-tables, and the ISP business these days is not exactly one
in which one makes a lot of money (witness the significant number of ISP's
who have had financial difficulties...)
In other words, it doesn't do much good to be able to big mega-big-fast core
routers, if none of the supposed customers have the money to be able to
buy/deploy them.
Reminds me of that old line:
"An engineer is a person who can do for a dime what any fool can do for a
dollar."
Translation: Throwing expensive hardware at the problem is not the answer.
Noel
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