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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Richard A Steenbergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >
