[ppml] Policy Proposal 2005-1: Provider-independent IPv6 Assignments for End Sites - Last Call

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

On 17-apr-2006, at 19:07, Bill Woodcock wrote:

> 2811 w/ AC PWR,2FE,4HWICs,2PVDMs,1NME,2AIMS,IP BASE,64F/256D       
> $2,495
> 256 to 768MB DDR DRAM factory upgrade for the Cisco 2811           
> $3,500

> And I have very little doubt that by the time 768mb of RAM becomes
> insufficient to hold a full routing table, vendors will have new  
> things to
> sell me in the sub-$2000 range.

So how fast do these go? 100 Mbps? Obviously at those speeds there  
are more options but many applications need multi-gigabit speeds. I  
would even argue that if 100 Mbps isn't a limitation multihoming or  
any other activity that requires full routing isn't cost effective.