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To: Petz who wrote (49088)7/26/2001 4:32:59 PM
From: xunRespond to of 275872
 
Petz,

Flash is widely used in telecom/network products to store firmware/software. And the need for size keeps going up because software keeps blowing up very quickly as more and more features are packed onto a single board or chasis. Let me put it this way, almost every embedded product in telecom/network uses flash.

panic



To: Petz who wrote (49088)7/26/2001 5:14:43 PM
From: combjellyRespond to of 275872
 
"Do switches and routers need flash?"

Yep, and both Intel and AMD are preferred vendors for Cisco, to pick one.



To: Petz who wrote (49088)7/26/2001 6:39:57 PM
From: Bill JacksonRespond to of 275872
 
Petz, The various types of flash allow them to replace the common 1 time EPROMS, in addition they can impinge on system memory uses where the slower speed is tolerable in embedded apps since they now have limitless cycle capability(unlike the early ones that had only a few hundred write/erase cycles in them before they failed.
So 10 years agow almost every card had an EPROM on it, now they have flash.

Bill


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