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Re: host or border router




On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 13:29 America/Montreal, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
I'm not saying it can't be done, just that only a small number of the
people buying very fast routers need this, so building this
functionality inside generic routers probably isn't the best way to go.
I believe it can be done in lower cost generic routers using existing
commodity silicon.  For sure it is available today from multiple vendors
in products costing less than US$ 5000 (street price).  At 100 Mbps
performance, it is available in shipping products for less than US$ 1000
(street price) today.

It is available at 10 Mbps performance in really really cheap equipment
for home use today for ~US$ 100.

Putting it in the router is unlikely to increase the router cost and
many routers will be able to do it today (e.g. tli's comment about
the 2600).

Ran
rja@extremenetworks.com