[119128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Human Factors and Accident reduction/mitigation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Sun Nov 8 11:51:49 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:51:06 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
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Anton Kapela wrote:
> What curve must we shift to get routers with hardware and software
> that's both a) fast b) reliable and c) cheap -- in the hopes that the
> only problems left to solve indeed are human ones?
Fast, Reliable, Cheap - pick any two. No, you can't have all three.
The fastest(best) and most reliable *anything* can't be the cheapest one
because someone will quickly seize the market opportunity to make one
that is lower quality (slower) or less reliable and sell it for a lower
price.
jc
