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Re: estimation of number of DFZ IPv4 routes at peak in the future

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Mar 11 21:16:04 2011

In-Reply-To: <845E1195-46D2-4DB9-926F-8AEF4D833BB7@delong.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:14:40 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 5:43 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Finally, get mad at your respective router manufacturers for
>> engineering obsolescence into their product line by declining to give
>> you the option.
>>
> The option of $60,000 line cards instead of $30,000 or
> even $25,000 instead of $12,000 does not seem like one
> that most would have found appealing.

Ever buy SAS drives instead of SATA even though they're twice as
expensive for the same disk space? Why?

You may be right, but it'd be nice to have the option.

-Bill



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