[Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

[tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)]

Richard Pieri wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> Actually the article I quoted mentions hosting a database on the router
>> several times, though I chalked that up to speculation by the author.
> 
> If this is true then I figure Cisco is targeting the financial sector
> with this. The only reason to put a production database on the router
> itself is to reduce network latency by a few microseconds, and the
> people most concerned about microsecond-scale network latency are the
> high-frequency traders.

A good theory, but in this case I believe the database idea was
mentioned with respect to what Qualcomm was planning to offer to the
consumer market. Some sort of a resource to be used by your
Internet-of-Things connected devices in your house.

 -Tom

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