Hmm; home equipment is, in many cases, much better than _industrial one_, if you concern about price/perfoamce . Good example - HD disks. Industrial SCSI disks are 2 steps behind home, IDE, ones. Home made computer is, in many cases, much better than industrial SERVER, from DELL. Reason is very simple - companies have a very high price competition in home market, and it drives prices down. Industrial market is much more conservative. Cisco vs Linksys was a very good example - 100$ vs 1000$, doing _almost_ the same. (I do not advocate an idea of PC Router). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk> To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> Cc: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:33 AM Subject: Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)
he also said something on the order of "let's not bother to discuss
appliances to build a global network."
Hmm actually I'm not so sure, the trend has been the opposite .. lots of PCs instead of mainframes and dumb terminals and the Internet itself has been about spreading out the networking rather than centralizing it.
Todays 'home appliances' have computing power in excess of that of todays routing equipment, the shortcoming is only the implementation and I think
using home that
is getting pretty close now to doing what we require at the low and medium end, and I dont see that high end is that difficult.. if the implementation works its just a matter of scaling, can you buy linecards with their own backplane yet..? if not I cant see it being hard and if the demand arises...
Steve