<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Michel Py wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Matthew Petach wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You can get old 7k-class Cisco routers for $500 on eBay;<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">why aren't more people just running large clusters of $500<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">routers, then? See the above cross-linking problem, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">look at the rack space cost to put them in; at your typical<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">facility like Equinix, at $1500/rack/month, if you can only<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">fit 3 7k-class routers per rack, if the router only costs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">$500, you end up spending as much on space for the router as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">your hardware cost *every month*.<br></blockquote><br>+1<br><br>You forgot the cost of electricity; colos charge or will charge for it.<br>These days, if you're not "green", you look "bad".<br><br>BTW, I have a mighty 7507 with dual RSPs to give away if someone cares<br>to drive and pick it up. 200lbs. 12U. $100 a month of electricity just<br>to power it up (not in winter, great heating system; in California<br>summer it's another story).<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>We use our old 7507 as a coffee table in our office. AAUI and OC3 interfaces included</div><div><br></div><div>
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