On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Tony Li wrote:
On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
Yes a very big unless. Multi-core processors are already available
that would make very large BGP convergence possible. Change the
algorithm as well and perhaps add some multi-threading to it and
it's even better.
Not necessarily. BGP convergence is strongly dependent on memory
bandwidth and multiple cores do not increase that.
Tony
Sun just released the T2 chip, claimed 60GB/s memory bandwidth, on-
board 10GbE interface etc.
Pricing under $1000 for an 8-core chip with 64 "threads".
Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
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