On Friday 29 February 2008, andrew colin wrote: > Are we comparing apples with apples here ?
That's my point exactly... you cannot compare PC-based routers to purpose-based platforms, pound-for-pound. The closest you can get is comparing PC-based routers to software routers such as Cisco's 1700, 1800, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800, 7200 or Juniper's J-series routers, as these are all software-based routers, much like PC-based routers. However, even this comparison is difficult because the software routers from Cisco and Juniper offer a very detailed interface-matrix support - from Ethernet to FE, from Gig-E to SDH/SONET, from ISDN to serial, from voice cards to service cards, e.t.c. This kind of interface diversity is not easily replicable on a PC-based router. Mark.
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