[12248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: too many routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Wed Sep 10 23:01:46 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 97 4:56:42 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of 10 Sep 1997 20:50:12 -0400
> Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> writes:
>
> > This is what I beleave sprint is doing. They are using the new Cisco 12000
> > GSR with external router servers. It is a smart way of patching the
> > problem. If you need more CPU or memory you can just add a bigger box and
> > more RAM.
>
> The GSRs are to move bits fast. They are not to act as
> route servers.
>
> Sprint recently announced that they are deploying 622Mbps
> POS cross-country links, and the GSRs are the only things
> you can put on the ends of such beasts that are available
> today.
>
> (Someone may point out that it may not be the only choice
> for very long, however, it's the only one whose design I
> know and have had any influence upon, and is therefore
> frankly the only one I trust, although I don't expect the
> people building the competing box will ship anything but a
> good product even if they are now rather deeply in bed
> with the cell-heads and about as transparent to most
> observers as the Kremlin during the cold war...
Well, Ericsson did spend around $1,250Mil trying to develop their own
ATM switch as part of ther AXE family. A total fiasko..
--Peter
