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Re: The Great Exchange

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri May 29 12:55:19 1998

Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:57:44 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <356ECFA4.2F1CF0FB@pluris.com>; from Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com> on Fri, May 29, 1998 at 08:09:24AM -0700

On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 08:09:24AM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> As a router manufacturer i can assure you that keeping detailed
> transfer records at today backbone's speeds is totally infeasible.
> (I do not say impossible, but the equipment capable of doing that
> doesn't exist, and would cost _at least_ two orders of magnitude
> more than conventional routers).

Oh.  Then it's considerably worse than just "three times the CPU".  Ok.

Thanks, Vadim.  ;-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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