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espaeth
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1999 called, they want their news back.

What the heck is this?

Routing hasn't been process switched from any of the major vendors this decade. Everything on the market today has a separation between the control plane and forwarding plane, with hardware ASICs handling the forwarding at wire speed. Arguing that hardware packet routing will "top out" is like arguing that we'll never make faster CPUs. To date none of the major manufactures have expressed any concerns about scaling existing packet routing technologies to 100GigE and beyond.
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CMoore2004
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This is kind of what I was trying to say, in a more technical way.

to forum · permalink · 2007-10-25 13:40:53 ·


Ignite
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Exactly, once routing decision on the first packet is made CEF or similar is used to fast switch.

Only constriction is the speed of the switching fabric, which is in the Terabit per second range for carrier class kit now.

to forum · permalink · 2007-10-25 16:11:01 ·
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