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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:29:56PM -0500, [email protected] quacked: > > High speeds are not important. High speeds at a *reasonable* cost are > important. What you are describing is a high speed at an *unreasonable* > cost. To paraphrase many a california sufer, "dude, chill out." The bleeding edge of performance in computers and networks is always stupidly expensive. But once you've achieved it, the things you did to get there start to percolate back into the consumer stream, and within a few years, the previous bleeding edge is available in the current O(cheap) hardware. A cisco 7000 used to provide the latest and greatest performance in its day, for a rather considerable cost. Today, you can get a box from Juniper for the same price you paid for your 7000 that provides a few orders of magnitude more performance. But to get there, you have to be willing to see what happens when you push the envelope. That's the point of the LSR, and a lot of other research efforts. -Dave -- work: [email protected] me: [email protected] MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.
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