[118120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Oct 12 21:15:35 2009
In-Reply-To: <20372E71-9EC3-40CE-B876-DE53985DC939@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:15:00 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:40 PM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> and, likely growth in the 250-300,000 route range over the next 5-10 yea=
rs.
>> CAM will probably scale faster than that.
>
> I've heard differing opinions on this (e.g., router ASICs being both some=
of the most complicated
> ASICs ever made and being non-commodity parts hence not necessarily follo=
wing Moore's Law,
> pin density in those ASICs reaching a point where you start running into =
crosstalk problems,
> cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria, etc). =A0I'm not a hardware=
guy so I'll just stare
> blankly.
I thought Tony's preso from RAWS was available or part of the report,
no? (which seemed pretty clear to me about cam sizes and asic
capabilities not going to meet the needs within the next 5-7 years)
-chris
