[167731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Dec 27 16:04:31 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <373999373.351134.1388176672382.JavaMail.root@snappytelecom.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:04:12 -0500
To: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 27, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net> =
wrote:
> e.g. If someone says I need a 10g interface, why is it automatically =
assumed that the router is going to be running @ Full Line Rate ?
Those of us with experience know that when =93something bad(tm)=94 =
happens, those features and =93expensive silicon=94 start to show some =
ROI. Is it a full trade-off? Depends on the risks of your business and =
exposure.
You can get some inexpensive hardware to do fairly fancy features these =
days. That can be very good, but caries that risk. Make sure you =
evaluate it carefully.
- Jared=
