> The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.' Though this "depends" is a quite high bar in reality. I know a regional internet

> The OSS off the shelf guy is going to ask 'Well that depends on the growth.' Though this "depends" is a quite high bar in reality. I know a regional internet provider that runs purely on software routers on commodity x86_64 servers. You need to be a quite large company (or operate in a very specific domain) to ever hit this level of traffic.