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Title: US$90K Cisco router? Post by Rad on Mar 9th, 2010 at 5:41pm
Check THIS out.
Link to video Cisco Says New Router to "Forever Change the Internet" Download the whole Internet in less than a minute. doesn't US$90K seem excessive for a router? some houses don't cost 90K. maybe it's gold-plated. |
Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by MrMagoo on Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:23pm
No, that's actually a really good price for a router that size. Keep in mind, this router isn't anything like the one you have at your house. It is about the size of a refrigerator, has multiple modules that each have their own processors, firmware, and fail-over functions, and can switch data at record speeds.
Also, the Cisco IOS (router operating system) isn't something that's borrowed from open source or half-baked like the firmware on your home router. Considerable time and effort goes into the IOS, and it has a huge range of features yet has to be incredibly stable. If a Windows computer stays on for a week without rebooting, it starts to act funky. On a router directing traffic for the Internet, such funkyness is completely unacceptable. If you reboot a Cisco router once a year, that's a lot (and you usually reboot to upgrade the IOS, not to fix funkyness.) $90K is probably the base price for the chassis. By the time you buy all the modules, it probably is more like $1mil. And since we're discussing it, there's a lot of marketing in the statement that it will "forever change the internet." The amount of bandwidth used on the Internet has been growing since it was invented. Current routers have reached their limits, and this is just the next generation. ISP's are no doubt excited to get the extra capacity, but this is an evolutionary step, not a game-changer. People come up with amazing new ways to use the Internet every day, and many of those new ways use more bandwidth than older applications. Cisco does a great job of evolving fast enough to keep up with bandwidth demands and the exploding scale of networks, but the heros of innovation on the Internet are the are the visionaries and web developers coming up with new and useful uses of that bandwidth. |
Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by MrMagoo on Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:38pm Rad wrote on Mar 9th, 2010 at 5:41pm:
Some thoughts on that... While comparing a router to a house puts it in perspective, it is an apples to Italian sports car comparison. Here's a few other comparisons that give a different perspective: A small plane (like a Cessna 172) costs $250K new. Air-to-air missiles cost $800K each. Interstates cost $20-200 mil / mile to build, and I'd argue that a router can carry more commerce than a mile of freeway. |
Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by Rad on Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:44pm MrMagoo wrote on Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:23pm:
really? |
Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by Rad.Test on Mar 10th, 2010 at 12:21am
from nigel
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Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by Rad.Test on Mar 10th, 2010 at 12:23am
Test.
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Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by Rad.Test on Mar 10th, 2010 at 12:23am
Another test.
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Title: Re: US$90K Cisco router? Post by MrMagoo on Mar 10th, 2010 at 7:22pm Rad wrote on Mar 9th, 2010 at 6:44pm:
These routers usually come in different sizes depending on how many modules they accept. The smallest, usually accepting 5 modules, is about 3-4 ft high, as Nigel described. The largest, accepting 13 modules, is 5-6 ft high. All sizes are designed to fit in a standard server rack, which is 19" across. |
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