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Comment Re:This seems to be a solution to a nonexistent pr (Score 1) 174

Its not as simple as you think when your 92 Tbps router is actually 72 16 slot routers connected together with fabric chassis, where each 16 slot router shelf is over 1 thousand pounds and the size of a 42U rack. Then you still need to connect switches with lots of ports to it.
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Look at Cisco's data center products, if you are looking to build a data center, for example the 18 slot Nexus 7k.
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The 18 slot Nexus 7k can support 512 10 gig ports on a single switch which is physically smaller than a single one of the 72 router shelfs of your 92 tbps CRS-1 requires, not to mention all the fabric chassis needed to connect your CRS-1 together..
To get 512 10 gig ports it would take an 8 shelf CRS-1 multichassis configuration.
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For a back of the envelope test you can put 256 Cisco 6513 chassis on a 512 port nexus 7k with redundant 10 gig links and then each 6513 can support 11 slots * 48 ports = 528 ports for servers. That gives a total of 256 * 528 = 135,168
  ports in the system. After this is setup, you now have about 128 42U racks full of over 100k blinking lights.

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