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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: too many routes
> Nathan Stratton <[email protected]> writes: > > > This is what I beleave sprint is doing. They are using the new Cisco 12000 > > GSR with external router servers. It is a smart way of patching the > > problem. If you need more CPU or memory you can just add a bigger box and > > more RAM. > > The GSRs are to move bits fast. They are not to act as > route servers. > > Sprint recently announced that they are deploying 622Mbps > POS cross-country links, and the GSRs are the only things > you can put on the ends of such beasts that are available > today. > > (Someone may point out that it may not be the only choice > for very long, however, it's the only one whose design I > know and have had any influence upon, and is therefore > frankly the only one I trust, although I don't expect the > people building the competing box will ship anything but a > good product even if they are now rather deeply in bed > with the cell-heads and about as transparent to most > observers as the Kremlin during the cold war... Well, Ericsson did spend around $1,250Mil trying to develop their own ATM switch as part of ther AXE family. A total fiasko.. --Peter
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