On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:56:29 PDT, Alexei Roudnev said: > > It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need > it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today. > Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily. > > Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always cache routing > tables.
Two words: "cache miss". And unlike a L1/L2 cache miss in a modern PC, where the CPU will *wait* for you to fill the cache line, the other end of that OC-192 is still in firehose mode....
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