| the goal is to come up with a router the size of a 5ESS | with similar capacity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ greater bigger than Just as an aside, the number of switched minutes for PDN/VPN dialup data traffic of all sorts (IP and non-IP, Internet and private network) through one particularly data-oriented IXC is widely expected to exceed the total number of switched minutes for voice traffic by the middle of summer, this year. It would astonish me to learn that a number of other IXCs and some LECs have not made strikingly similar predictions, give or take some weeks or months. | (and which is installable and maintainable by telco knuckledraggers) You got that part right. Sean.