[99429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Fri Sep 21 13:03:23 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:00:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: Michael Smith <mksmith@adhost.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709211915060.4476@netcore.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> But the vendors aren't unable -- AFAIK, such devices have been available on
> the market for, what, 7-8 years now? It's just your wallet that's unable to
> get equipment that's needed to face the network that's getting more complex.
Cisco reps are still selling SUP32's to people despite being told the
customer wants to take full routes. That's either incompetence, or
dishonesty.
It has nothing to do with budget. If you are told Product A will do the
job and costs $100k, and product B will also do the job but costs only
$50k, you'd be an idiot to go with product A.
Furthermore- Cisco doesn't have a product to meet their needs. A Sup32
with a 3bxl is what a lot of people need, but Cisco seems intent on
forcing people to upgrade to a Sup720. That's just overkill for most
people.
-Don
