[Rpm] Almost had a dialog going with juniper...

[rjmcmahon]

Their post isn't really about bloat. It's about the discrepancy in i/o 
bw of memory off-chip and on-chip.

My opinion is that the off-chip memory or hybrid approach is a design 
flaw for a serious router mfg. The flaw is thinking the links' rates and 
the chip memory i/o rates aren't connected when obviously they are. Just 
go fast as possible and let some other device buffer, e.g. the end host 
or the server in the cloud.

Bob
> https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/
> 
> But they deleted the comment thread. It is interesting, I suppose, to
> see how they frame the buffering problems to themselves in their post:
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sizing-router-buffers-small-new-big-sharada-yeluri/