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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: too many routes
> On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Joseph T. Klein wrote: > > > The routes issue historically comes down to the fact that Sprint did not > > want to convert from Cisco 4000 to Ciscos that had larger memory capacity. > > Memory is cheap these days ... the big boys just don't wish to have a > > free market. > > I do not think sprint had 4000s in their backbone, they had AGS+ routers. > The problem is not the lack of memory, but that the CPU can not process > all the date in the memory when it needs to. The cisco 7500 have that > same prob, sure you can put 256 megs of RAM in them, but can the CPU > recalculate the next hop if most of that date in that RAM changes? > The new RSP4 card may have solved that, we may be at a point now where the > router has enough processor to be able to process all the data it has > stored in memory and do it quickly. AGS+'s only could handle 16meg, the cpu in a AGS+ is the same as in a 7000 series, (motorola 68040) As of a year ago, I believe I heard that sprint still had AGS+'s in their backbone and were upgrading them to 7000 series equipment. -- Jason Jason Vanick ------------------------------------------ [email protected] Network Operations Manager V: 312-245-9015 MegsInet, Inc. 225 West Ohio St. Suite #400 Chicago, Il 60610
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