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RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

  • From: michael.dillon
  • Date: Sun Jan 20 19:27:40 2008 
> There's a missing piece here. You'd need a way to go from the 
> 1-gige interfaces that commodity hardware can keep up with to 
> the 10gige-plus interfaces that the backbone requires.

Or you could stick with 1G circuits and rely on wavelengths
and laying more fiber to take up the slack. Not to mention
the fact that commoditization of the infrastructure allows
more backbone networks to be built.

This is definitely not an instant revolution, just a way
to evolve the network in a different direction. And I do
think that a company trying this will need electronics 
engineers who can design innovative hardware as well as
just assembling cards and boxes from the open market.

> And too, the notion of a Linux routing cluster is undeniably hot. :)

Yep.

--Michael Dillon