Re: [RRG] Tunnel fragmentation/reassembly for RRG map-and-encaps architectures

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>]

Tony,

> On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> 
> > Whether the routing convergence will continue to degrade as the
> > number of prefixes scale depends on the scalability of the control
> > plane CPU/memory.
> 
> 
> Correct.  We've shown that the growth in the speed of normal DRAM is  
> slower than the prefix growth rate.  Thus, simply the act of writing  
> a list of all prefixes to memory (e.g., at initial convergence time)  
> is taking longer each year.

That, of course, assumes that we *have to* use DRAM. But do we
really have to ?

Yakov.

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