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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: /24s run amuck
michael, imagestream does this, afaik. not too familiar with their offerings though. paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:02 AM Subject: Re: /24s run amuck > > >Why vendors feel the need to design route > >processors which are barely upgradable in RAM, not upgradable in > >processing power, and at best 24-36 months behind the times of the > >technology the Dell Interns are pushing for $499, is beyond me. > > It's called profit margins. > > The thing that surprises me is that there aren't any small > vendors offering fairly generic routing boxes, i.e. Intel-based > motherboard, lots of RAM, BSD/Linux base OS with Zebra for > routing and some of the many PCI cards supporting T1 and > DS3 circuits (not to forget GigE...). In most other industries > that are dominated by a few large brand-name high-margin > suppliers there are also several low-margin suppliers offering > generic products with minimal handholding. Why don't we > see this in the router business? > > --Michael Dillon > >
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