On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for > the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global > sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.
For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of $30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement that radically reduced the cost per route add? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
