> Once upon a time Willem Jan Withagen shaped the electrons to say...
> >But what about memory?
> >People keep telling me that I'll need 32 Mb for BGP, and likely 64Mb in the
> >not to far future.
>
> That may be true for Cisco, it is NOT true in the least for us.
>
> You can happily run *four* full feeds in *SIXTEEN* MB on Livingston boxes.
>
> Actually, you need 16MB since one full feed is just over 5MB and our
> incriments are 1, 4, 16 (and 32 on the PM-3).
>
> >box. So can I squeeze 64Mb into a PM3? I'm shure an IRX does'nt take it.
> >A PM3 might take 4 16Mb/72pins simms?
>
> A PM-3 has ONE 72 pin slot - and that is all it needs. A single 16MB chip
> is more than enough for multiple feeds, and a 32MB chip would be overkill.
>
How are you going to sell _anything_ with only one SIMM slot? You need to
be able to say that "... the PM3 support (only) 1Gb RAM in 16 high density
DIMM modules ..". Think of all the sales to Ascend owners you'll be
missing out on without oneupmanship! Just kidding :-)
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al@logical-approach.com
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