Re: the confusion about net neutrality

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
> The simpler the decision the router has to take, the faster it gets. We are
> now talking about optical routers, where you don't convert signals from
> optical to electrical and back again. These, of course, are not suited for
> complex decision-making.

Yes - though I doubt whether optical routers will be implemented at
the edge of the networks (realm of the COAI).

> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Abhijit Gadgil <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> looking at 'every packet' is going to slow down argument doesn't hold
>> much.
>
>
> How much is much, pray, Abhijit? The closer you have to look at every
> packet, the more you will slow it down, agreed?

No - the routers doing it at wirespeed (just shallow packet
inspection) source/destination address/port have become commodity (sub
10K dollars) that do it @ 10gbps speeds!! Plus with other things like
MPLS etc - you don't have to look @ them @ those high speeds. Sorry I
should have said - it doesn't hold ground at all - rather than _much_!
:-) Of course it's not free - but cost per GB is going to be miniscule
(and most of it will be energy cost).