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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: CIDR Report
> Vadim Antonov: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 12:32 AM > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Sure, *any* good router vendor can build a router that can > handle 100 million > > routing table entries. > > Not. The empirical evidence suggests that aggregate flap > rate is proportional > to the number of prefixes in RIB. Now, when people talk > about route update > processing they tend to forget that IGP and routing table > updates are easy; > matching prefixes against routing policy filters is not. I tend to agree, the numbers I threw around earleir were strictly first-order approximations for raw sizes. Second-order would include performance issues and algorithm requirements. I see that Vadim ihas already arrived there. > I would say that a computing device capable of doing today's border routing > policies at 1M updates per second is well into the realm of science > fiction. The other item usually included at this level should be bandwidth requirements. What is the size of an update, and how many Gbps load would be generated, at a rate of 1M updates per second? (I don't have the base quantity handy, would someone please provide?) > > The questions are (a) can they do it for a pricetag > > of under $2M, and (b) how many will they sell? Why $2M? From price ranges in the current market, I would think that they'd have to hit under $200K. Actually, I would have a difficult time convincing clients of anything over an additional $60K. This gets back to my earlier question, how many backbone routers are there (nearest order of magnitude should suffice here)? > The question of profitability of cheese mining on the Moon is > irrelevant, because Moon isn't made from cheese. Typical rough market guidelines are that development cost must be less than 1% of total market size or the project is a non-starter, business-wise. Typical costs for this sort of project are $1M to $3M, over 8 months, with COGm at about $50 (relative to a minimum Number of Goods sold [NOGs] and assuming that it is technically feasible).
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