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Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Mon Oct 18 21:37:49 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:33:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Mon Oct 18 09:13:13 2010
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:13:35 +0100
> From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
> To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
> Subject: Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>
> On 18/10/2010 14:27, Brandon Kim wrote:
> > Good question Nick, what is a cloud switch? Is this like VSS in cisco
> > where you have a virtual chassis?
>
> The vss is virtual management software for a virtual switch. This box
> looks like a piece of hardware that you can plug things into, so I'm just
> wondering what makes this a cloud switch and some other piece of kit not a
> cloud switch.
Maybe it has to do with whether the magic smoke is on the inside or the outside
of the box. <grin>
