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[Heath Jones]

Carrier grade equipment means nothing more than heavy metal boxes containing
fast interfaces, lots of bugs and a hefty price tag. The only reason it
works is because of the number of users ironing out all the bugs over time
in post-production. Keep in mind that every vendor will want to charge 100%
price for 0% product. Actually, thats every company in general. The point is
that 'carrier grade' is a bullshit term that just means expensive. Perhaps
I'm being a little pessimistic, but with the problems I've seen on carrier
networks, its a joke really..

I'd love to hear some technical reasons why this cannot / is not / will not
be done. I think its a good idea, clearly a number of people have had it.



On 15 September 2010 19:00, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:38 +0100, Heath Jones wrote:
> > There is absolutely *NO* reason why an additional entry needs to
> > occupy space in TCAM in this case.
>
> No reason at all? Are there any examples of this kind of TCAM
> compression being used out in the wild? On carrier grade equipment?
>
> Though not a logical extension, I propose that if it doesn't exists even
> though it's widely understood there must be some reason for that.
>
> Deaggregation is bad, m-kay? :-D
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> Peter
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