[130462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router lifetime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Mon Oct 4 08:55:18 2010
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:54:44 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <26584318.604.1286061791081.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
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On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> How long do you keep a router in production?
>
> What is your cycle for replacement of equipment?
>
> For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the OS, tho it is not uncommon to see companies still on XP and IE6.
Hell, we still have Windows 2000 and IE6.
--Curtis
