[6664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Film at 11:00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Jan 2 01:42:00 1997
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:01:02 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: alex@relcom.EU.net, tli@jnx.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, pferguso@cisco.com
Tony Li wrote:
>So the problem is that as we approach higher speed (post-7500) interfaces,
>you're forced into more specialized hardware. At this point, not having an
>SSE ASIC becomes somewhat silly. The rest of the board is ASICs, which in
>volume end up cheaper than processors...
There's not enough volume in high-end box market to get to the break-even
point on the price-performance. Providing that there's a way to get
a bunch of cheapo CPUs to do the job. And don't forget the DRAM vs SRAM
issue. I did the arithmetic.
--vadim
