[66465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /24s run amuck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Jan 14 05:07:17 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:36:45 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF12A5C8C0.9F7FC792-ON80256E1B.00366764-80256E1B.0036EA3A@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> The thing that surprises me is that there aren't any small
> vendors offering fairly generic routing boxes, i.e. Intel-based
> motherboard, lots of RAM, BSD/Linux base OS with Zebra for
> routing and some of the many PCI cards supporting T1 and
> DS3 circuits (not to forget GigE...). In most other industries
> that are dominated by a few large brand-name high-margin
> suppliers there are also several low-margin suppliers offering
> generic products with minimal handholding. Why don't we
> see this in the router business?
A lot of the "broadband routers" / wireless access points you see in the
market are built kind of like this.
