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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
> > >> Sorry, Leo is correct. Technologies he outlined are only the tip of the > >> ice-berg of what *isn't* being exploited by the router vendors. > > > > Your average PC doesn't have to be NEBS-compliant, doesn't have to work > > more than 24 hours w/o crashing, and doesn't have quite strict constraints > > on power & heat dissipation. It doesn't have to have redundant power, and > > its components are readily available and cheap (those are produced in > > _large_ batches). > > i think mo said something like "can we not discuss building global > infrastructure using home appliances?" "Technology" is neither NEBS-compliant or not. I don't think the suggestion is that the toaster-oven or the PC become an integral part of the infrastucture, but that the vendors are lagging in taking advantage of technologies that have been widely, and successfully, deployed elsewhere. I don't want my router on the absolute bleeding edge of processors and supporting chipsets and what-not because I want the vendor to have seen the lessons learned by others in many orders of magnitude greater numbers of deployments in other devices. Neither do I want my vendor to lag so far behind that while other kinds of devices have a cheetah in their case, my router vendor is still shovelling in hamsters. Stephen (Maybe this one will trigger some filters for insensitivity to hamsters. "crap" and "crud" failed completely.)
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