my CISCO routers (about 10 - 30,000$) at all. It's easy to install
2 or 4 CPU into SUN ULTRA-2 or SGI SERVER computers, but it's impossible to do
it with routers. And so on.
Well, it's also somewhat more complicated to distribute the tasks in a router
to multiple CPUs.
There are plenty of ways to break Bays by accidentally doing that distribution
wrong.
Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow
Avi
Yes, no doubt. But I'd like to see router's vendors predicted
future better than in the past. We all know few serious mistakes CISCO
did - with the memory size in CS4500, with CS7000 and CS7010 routers;
and I am afraid to fail into new trap in future...
Alex - I'm sure there were the visionaries at Cisco with their heads in
the clouds who were telling the various marketing and engineering bodies
to build a box like the 7500 or BFR some time ago. However, proving the
market would be there and that there would actually be a customer base for
such a product is a little more difficult.
I believe, that only in the past 1-2yrs has ISP revenue actually accounted
for a good portion of Cisco's overall revenue. (Perhaps someone from
Cisco or someone with their financial statement can speak to this)
Building boxes that require a huge amount of R&D and won't sell more than
< 5,000 of isn't a very profitable business. Cisco should be thankful
that the overall majority of their ISP user base is rather understanding
when it comes to performance limitations, discovering and working around
software issues, etc. etc.
-jh-
In cisco.external.nanog you write:
Yes, no doubt. But I'd like to see router's vendors predicted
future better than in the past. We all know few serious mistakes CISCO
did - with the memory size in CS4500, with CS7000 and CS7010 routers;
and I am afraid to fail into new trap in future...
Yep.. we are hearing you. Hopefully we will not fall into the same
trap again.
--ravi