21 Jul
2008
21 Jul
'08
9:35 a.m.
Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> writes:
That said I think you're headed to high end again. It has been routinetly posited that fib growth hurts the people on the edge more than in the center. I don't buy that for the reason outlined in my original response. If my pps requirements are moderate my software router can carry a fib of effectively arbitrary size at a lower cost than carrying the same fib in cam.
While that's true, planned obsolescence in terms of ram non-expandability from certain <cough> vendors leaves people on the edge (who often have to scrape by on thin budgets) hurting badly enough as to offset any theoretical software-vs-hardware router advantage they may have originally had. -r