[130917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Mon Oct 18 11:57:53 2010
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:27:37 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CBC3BC9.7070803@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100
Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote:
> > We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches :
>
> Sounds interesting. What chipset does this run on?
>
> Also, what's a cloud switch? Is this a switch which forwards L2 traffic,
> or did I miss something?
>
"Cloud" is the new mainframe i.e. "it's running somewhere else ... "
And the Emperor is naked ... ;-)