Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Blayzor
Jeff Kell wrote: If we continue along orders of magnitude, sure it's foreseeable. * 30 years ago, 300 baud was the bomb :-) * 3000 baud was roughly 2400bps days * 3 baud gets us to ~28.8k *30 baud was about 2 ISDN lines (2x128k) * 300

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Blayzor
micky coughes wrote: I can see that *everybody* is missing the point on Peter's exercise. Clearly this is to show to the telcos of the world that you can upgrade to a native IP infrastructure and absorb the existing transport into the router with a minimal effort. There was a post here from

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:19:08 BST, Leigh Porter said: I see a global demand for perhaps 5 CRS-1s ;-) To be fair, the original of said comment has to be taken in context. If he were alive today, he'd probably say There's a world market for maybe 5 fully max-config'ed Blue Gene systems.

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:57:01 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe I'm missing something as I'm not the smartest guy on this list, but what exactly did this prove? Always an important question to ask... Although, a picture of Peter Lothberg in his mothers basement standing next to a CRS-1

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-13 Thread Keegan . Holley
Maybe I'm missing something as I'm not the smartest guy on this list, but what exactly did this prove? ISP's aren't going to start handing out home connections at 40G per or even 1G. The best pipe they can use between ISP's is probably going to be the same 40-G blade so even at 500M per they

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Kell
Randy Bush wrote: you're not going to find any 40GB capable CPE now or in the foreseeable future that's going to be affordable for the residence. i would agree if we had not once said that about a few meg per sec. If we continue along orders of magnitude, sure it's foreseeable. * 30

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, micky coughes wrote: I can see that *everybody* is missing the point on Peter's exercise. Clearly this is to show to the telcos of the world that you can upgrade to a native IP infrastructure and absorb the existing transport into the router with a minimal effort. There