The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question

Mon Oct 1 16:50:30 UTC 2001

There is also a point that many folks may be missing. The 7200 and 7500
routers, while ubiquitious, are not new models. These are 5 year-old
devices, which have been progressively retrofitted with new CPUs, and are
based on even older technology.

There have been assertions made that telco equipment is expected to last for
20 years - this is true. However, we are at a much later stage in the
maturity of voice phone switches. It will take a few more (albeit costly)
cycles of equipment replacement for routers to last anywhere near that long.
However, for computing equipment, the 7xxx class of routers has aged quite
well. How many of us are running with 5 year-old PCs on our desks? Now,
contrast this to how many of us have 7200s or 7500s in our networks...

- Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:19 AM
> To: Michael Whisenant
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
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>
> On Friday 28 September 2001, at 15 h 33,
> Michael Whisenant <mwhisen at foreigner.whisenant.net> wrote:
>
> > Got a question, so a 7513MX2/8 fairly new model within Cisco still ONLY
> > supports 256MB of Ram. So lets track the trends and try to
> predict when Cisco
> > will force everyone into a new BGP master router?
> ...
> > Continue  with uncontrolled growth to the Internet routing
> table and you will
> > soon be replacing it with something bigger
>
> This is a problem only for people using Ciscos. (Maximum 256 Mb
> of RAM on a
> modern machine, not a washing machine, but an INTERNET ROUTER, I must be
> dreaming...)
>
> Like with Microsoft's broken software I seriously object
> harassing everybody
> just because Cisco is not able to do better.
>
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