[97876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Thu Jul 12 21:07:55 2007
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:06:31 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4696C8DA.3070101@bogus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> How practical is it really also that you need CRS-1 at the residence for
>> this. I agree with Sean. Since for most people the line card alone
>> costs more than the house. :-)
>
> 40Gb/s per slot routers are not that rare at this point. So the notion
> that you need a crs-1 in order to capitalize on 40G is I think
> demonstrably false.
As I said, "at the residence". I could care less if it's a CRS-1 or
Acme router. My point is, you're not going to find any 40GB capable CPE
now or in the foreseeable future that's going to be affordable for the
residence.
I know the intention of the article was to demonstrate the technological
advantage of fiber optic networking vs. other technologies, but to mask
the article around something that seems to indicate that "40GB to the
home" is somehow the current benchmark is incredibly unrealistic.
-Robert
