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Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 17:17:15 EDT
On Mon, 15 May 2000 15:05:45 EDT, Chris Williams <> said:
> > "routers with faster bgp implemetations are what is needed" is what we
> > say, but the question a vendor asks is "does it increase my profit
> > margin, revenues, or market position?". what we "want" is mostly
> > irrelevant.
> Don't you think introducing something which is A) In significant demand,
> and B) Nobody else has, generally works to increase one's market share?
You (and a lot of other people) seem to have forgotten a line item:
C) Price Point. How much are people willing/able to PAY for such a feature,
and how many do you have to sell at that price to offset the R&D costs?
Sure, *any* good router vendor can build a router that can handle 100 million
routing table entries. The questions are (a) can they do it for a pricetag
of under $2M, and (b) how many will they sell?
-- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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