It's _WAY_ more than a billion boxes at this point. Owen On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.
For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of $30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement that radically reduced the cost per route add?
Regards, Bill Herrin
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