[130048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Sun Sep 26 20:35:48 2010
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:35:34 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, <ym1r.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know open source solutions doesn't have support for fabric or high speed asics. So the throughput will always be a big difference. Unless you are comparing a pure packet software interrupt platform.
Not high speed ASICs, but there are hardware-forwarding open-source(in
a broad definition) solutions:
http://netfpga.org
There are 3 related presentations on NANOG 50, which suggests these
solutions are reaching "real ops" quality.
Rubens
