[address-policy-wg] 2009-04 New Policy Proposal (IPv4 Allocation and Assignments to Facilitate IPv6 Deployment)

I hear from Juniper they was capable of 5M routes an year ago.

I think, 2020 year hardware should be capable about 500M prefixes easy.

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Max Tulyev wrote:
> 
>> Seriously, in that time hardware will become capable of carrying that
>> easy.
> 
> What timeframe is that?
> 
> 10 years ago, the state of the art core routing platforms were capable
> of a few hundreds of thousands of FIB routes, today it seems to be 1-2M
> for the more expensive platforms. If you're talking about 2020 then by
> then 3-4M might be working well, but you'd still spend a lot more than
> than needed in converging a network with that many prefixes.
> 
> For the good of the Internet, let's not put more prefixes in DFZ than
> needed.
> 


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WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)