/24s run amuck

Wed Jan 14 10:06:45 UTC 2004

Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

> The thing that surprises me is that there aren't any small
> vendors offering fairly generic routing boxes, i.e. Intel-based
> motherboard, lots of RAM, BSD/Linux base OS with Zebra for
> routing and some of the many PCI cards supporting T1 and
> DS3 circuits (not to forget GigE...). In most other industries
> that are dominated by a few large brand-name high-margin
> suppliers there are also several low-margin suppliers offering
> generic products with minimal handholding. Why don't we
> see this in the router business?

A lot of the "broadband routers" / wireless access points you see in the 
market are built kind of like this.