[j-nsp] Qfabric

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:06:45PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> you'll find no tcam in your high-end MX style platforms and ultimately 
> the power requirements for large amounts of cam will doom the current 
> iterations of tcam technology. 800w per slot devices are bad enough 
> 2kw per slot devices would be a serious pain.

Technically not true, MPCs (the modular ones, not the 16x10G card) have 
TCAM on them, it's just not actually used by any software yet, and it 
would be used for accelerated firewall lookups not routing. :)

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