[167999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open source hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benno Overeinder)
Sat Jan 4 06:08:45 2014
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:08:11 +0100
From: Benno Overeinder <benno@NLnetLabs.nl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140103133356.GA25459@pob.ytti.fi>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3-1-2014 14:33, Saku Ytti wrote:
> Right now, if you need perfomance, you're going to have to buy something like
> bcom chip and then cumulusnetworks linux on top of it, it's as close to 'open
> source' as you're going to get with good performance.
> And this is more or less DC stuff, SP market needs more intelligent chips than
> those ASICs, and I don't think there anything 'open source' in the market
> place for NPU stuff.
No hands-on experience with Cumulus Networks equipment, but from what I
have heard I like their approach to open hardware/software for routing
equipment. It is flexible what you want to configure and run (all open
source software). For the hardware switching support they license their
Switch HAL module.
Cheers,
-- Benno
