Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:48:02 -0500 From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@mail.gwi.net> To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, wes@softweyr.com, ckempf@enigami.com, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? Message-ID: <199903151348.IAA23796@mail.gwi.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 EST." <19990314215944E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 -0500 W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Erm... Depends on what one wants to do with it :) > > I believe certain market segments would welcome a Gigabit > Ethernet subsystem on a Rambus with huge memory buffers. Hum, the only use of such cards would be PC routers? You are talking with a builder/maintainer of PC routers :) Having said that, our market niche is *way* small. I don't think this is a profitable niche. I think that one would be building so few cards, the cost would be so great per card that it would be cheaper to buy a Cisco. There are many hidden costs to developing/building/testing/maintaining/operating PC routers and Ciscos are already probably cheaper in the long run. regards, fletcher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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