The Internet hits another milestone of sorts...

The Internet hits another milestone of sorts...  This is the fifth or sixth time in my own experience that a similar BGP size gate was hit.  It sure seems silly these days to have just 512k route entries pose a RAM limit.  The limit essentially comes from the conjunction of two things: (1) Cisco's dominance (now lessening) of the Internet backbone infrastructure, and (2) the insanely high prices that Cisco charges for RAM in their routers.  All of this is starting to change, though, with the advent of serious competition for ISP-scale IP routing infrastructure...