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Re: New vyatta-nsp list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Bane)
Tue May 24 17:54:30 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=RfGKL_M0VU7FadZ47AxGKqf=8Mw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Jon Bane <jon@nnbfn.net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:54:06 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Brent Jones <brent@servuhome.net> wrote:
>
>
> Well, with the new Juniper entry level MX devices out now, the cost
> difference between Vyatta and Juniper is probably insignificant now,
> and with Juniper devices, you have much higher PPS rate.
>
> Granted, I have Vyatta devices now doing BGP, and they work fine, but
> you can't argue that ASICs can forward much faster than a general
> purpose CPU :)
>
> To each their own
>
> --
> Brent Jones
> brent@servuhome.net
>
>
I won't argue that an ASIC isn't faster, but it is hard to argue that Vyatta
isn't capable of high-end performance.
http://download.intel.com/embedded/processor/solutionbrief/322973.pdf
