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