[99200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Sun Sep 9 10:24:52 2007
In-Reply-To: <daf895880709090002k18d21e75jf2f8ad5bf7bbe441@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:17:13 +0100
To: randal k <nanog@data102.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9 Sep 2007, at 08:02, randal k wrote:
> This part here just boggles the mind. Not everybody out there that
> needs full routes is pushing enough bandwidth to justify the cost
> of a 720gbps backplane -- medium sized datacenters, regional ISPs,
> etc all really like full routes but may never see even 30gbps of
> traffic. Everybody I've talked to about this particular problem has
> the same feelings -- that big C is hanging their 6509 user base out
> to dry.
There are Vendor C platforms that can push much more than 30Gbit, and
take a full table comfortably, that cost a lot less than 6500 series
kit.
