Friday, August 15, 2014

Find: The internet is so big that it's breaking routers

More growing pains for the net. 

// The Verge - All Posts

The internet may soon be too large for many border routers to handle, according to a new report from analysts at Renesys. Older hardware could reach a breaking point in the next few weeks, causing failures across smaller providers. It's going to be more of an inconvenience than a catastrophe, but if your small provider goes down in the coming weeks, there's a good chance there'll be an overloaded border router behind it.

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