Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks

Fri Mar 8 14:45:36 UTC 2002

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 08:39 , Ron da Silva wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:48:49AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>>
>> ...I don't think I can put it any more clearly. There has got
>> to be a push from the USERS of this equipment (not just one user, all
>> users) to get line rate, full packet filtering capability on ALL
>> interfaces on EVERY router, everything from the smallest foundry or 
>> 1700
>> to the largest 12416 or M160 or Avici. If users don't start asking for
>> this 2 years ago it'll be another 4-5 years before its a reality. The
>> vendors will NOT push forward on this without a significant cash 
>> incentive
>> (like everyone saying: I need this so do it for me).
>
> So it appears that we are in agreemnet after all!  :-)  (And we've been
> saying the above for at least 4 years now...)

Since at least one vendor has got the message and ships hardware that 
*will* do line-rate filtering on high-speed interfaces, perhaps the 
answer is to modulate vendor selection accordingly. There's a 
significant cash incentive, for you, or at least a significant non-cash 
disincentive.

Joe