[131015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan)
Tue Oct 19 08:42:30 2010
In-Reply-To: <20101019022737.1fed70a6@opy.nosense.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:42:22 -0500
From: Stefan <netfortius@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Smith
<nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100
> Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
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>> On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote:
>> > We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches :
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>> Sounds interesting. =A0What chipset does this run on?
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>> Also, what's a cloud switch? =A0Is this a switch which forwards L2 traff=
ic,
>> or did I miss something?
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> "Cloud" is the new mainframe i.e. "it's running somewhere else ... "
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> And the Emperor is naked ... ;-)
Coming back to the subject of cloud impact, from a network
perspective, here is an over-one-year-old recording on the subject
(Doug Gourlay's comment: "Cloud could break the Internet if not
deployed on capable networks"):
http://www.infra20.com/post.cfm/fire-infrastructure-2-0-panel-now-viewable-=
online#ixzz12o8QYPu1
***Stefan Mititelu
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