It's _WAY_ more than a billion boxes at this point. Owen
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote: > 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
