[127746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Tue Jul 13 11:29:43 2010
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:25:53 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B041E921-4550-4ED7-9A49-5DE4C2D93D46@oicr.on.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:11:57 am Greg Whynott wrote:
> > They are all software based, no matter who builds them. Cisco IOS,
> > Juniper JunOS, etc.
>
> controlling hardware asic's and fpga's.
That run low level software microcode and bitstreams. Sorry, it's software running those ASIC's and FPGA's, even at that level. Verilog and VHDL, while not your ordinary programming languages, blur the line very effectively.
