[138524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: estimation of number of DFZ IPv4 routes at peak in the future
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arturo Servin)
Wed Mar 9 07:06:15 2011
From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:06:04 -0200
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On 9 Mar 2011, at 07:18, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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> one of these curves is steeper than the other.
That's what we wanted for the first one.
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> If the slope on the second stays within some reasonable bounds of it's
> current trajactory then everything's cool, you buy new routers on
> schedule and the world moves on. The first one however will eventually
> kill us.
It won't, it will take an "S" shape eventually. Possibly around =
120k prefixes, then it will follow the normal growth of the Internet as =
v4 did.=20
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> The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run
> we are all dead - John Maynard Keynes
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>> randy
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