[41123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Aug 29 22:39:19 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:38:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Ha! Clearly the largest of the new routers have huge space/power/heat
> issues.
Teraplex 20 in full configuration (19.2 Tbps switching capacity, 128
racks) consumes 0.8 megawatt, not counting A/C.
Reminds me good ol' times when main Relcom POP in Moscow had an on-site
nuclear reactor as a source of back-up electricity (well, it was located
in the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy :)
--vadim
