http://blogs.sanmathi.org/nalanda/2008/11/06/middleboxes-and-indirection/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 May 2012 10:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/nalanda/2008/11/06/middleboxes-and-indirection/#comment-63 Randy Katz Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:16:48 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/nalanda/?p=236#comment-63 The trigger mechanism in i3 certainly appears to be very powerful and general. It makes it possible to implement several functionalities at once, which is a good thing. The main problem, in my view, is some of the performance issues, such as the hop-by-hop latency (stretch) can be a problem, at least in the wide-area. We'll see this again when we look at datacenters, where some of the performance and security issues can be sidestepped. The trigger mechanism in i3 certainly appears to be very powerful and general. It makes it possible to implement several functionalities at once, which is a good thing. The main problem, in my view, is some of the performance issues, such as the hop-by-hop latency (stretch) can be a problem, at least in the wide-area. We’ll see this again when we look at datacenters, where some of the performance and security issues can be sidestepped.

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