On August 12, 2014, a limit was breached with far-reaching consequences for the Internet.
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00:00 — Intro
00:42 — The growing table
04:55 — BGPMon
08:15 — August 12, 2014
12:27 — The Cisco 6500
15:46 — Recreating 512K Day
23:58 — Will we be ready?
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Toonk, Andree. (2025). Interview conducted by Serial Port.
Berry, Brian. (2025). Interview conducted by Serial Port.
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Huston, G. (2015). That 512K Route Thing. APNIC. https://labs.apnic.net/presentations/store/2015-01-29-routers-routing.pdf
de Silva, S. (2007). 6500 FIB Forwarding Capacities. Cisco Systems. https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog39/presentations/fib-desilva.pdf
Popeskic, V. (2015). TCAM and CAM memory usage inside networking devices. https://howdoesinternetwork.com/2015/tcam-memory