Actually, some kind of content addressable memory looks more promising for increasing update throughput than GPUs.
Rubens On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 1:13 PM Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com> wrote: > > So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for > ‘route optimization’ from products like RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and > more recently whatever Noction is doing. > > > > The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only > optimize the top N egress routes due to how many probes it could send out and > how many results it could process. > > > > It seems like now with a modest GPU in a router you could pretty easily > ‘optimize’ [to the extent that you believe this technology worked] pretty > much the whole routing table. > > > > We used these tools extensively back then and they actually worked pretty > well in most cases. The biggest issue we ran into was people complaining that > we pinged their IP addresses… which now a days seems like a great worst > problem to have. > > > > Anyway is anyone doing any work on implementing GPUs into the BGP decision > making process? Seems like a no brainer. > > > > -Drew > >
