[j-nsp] Qfabric

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 2/26/11 10:33 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> 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. :)

oh shit, you mean I can't have a million input acls on a port?

there goes my business plan.

yeah sorry for omitting that.