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Re: The Making of a Router

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Dec 27 22:51:31 2013

To: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:37:52 +0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:49:59 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:37:52 +0000, Faisal Imtiaz said:

> 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 ?

It may not be full line rate - but it's a pretty sure bet that you plan
to run it at a fairly high percentage duty cycle, either right now or in the
fairly near future.

If you weren't, you'd have bought a 1G interface instead.

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