Google Internet Summit 2009: The Future

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them. And they're bigger than the 5ESS switch operating systems that we used to mock. They provide a huge barrier to entry for innovation. And on the hardware side, you take a big router. This numbers are actually pretty conservative. A packet going from one interface to another interface on a big router will encounter somewhere about 500 million gates of processing and encounter about 10 gigabytes of D-RAM--of RAM. And this makes them bloated. It makes them power hungry. So this simple thing ...