[168013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open source hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sat Jan 4 16:36:34 2014
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 23:35:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20140103133356.GA25459@pob.ytti.fi>
Reply-To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu
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On Friday, January 03, 2014 03:33:56 PM 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.
Indeed.
Broadcom are making lots of interesting cheap and fast=20
ASIC's, but they're data centre focused, or serve a specific=20
platform feature set with Cisco/Juniper that has a number of=20
restrictions, just to keep the costs down.
Mark.
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