[184798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sfp "computer"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Tue Oct 20 08:02:00 2015
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:01:52 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: chip@2bithacker.net
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 20 October 2015 at 01:42, Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net> wrote:
Hey,
> See page 4 on the spec sheet:
> http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000531-en.pdf
>
> No idea what's involved with packaging the VM and getting it there, but
> should open up some interesting possibilties.
What are those possibilities? How can you leverage VM in your
router/switch? Do you have access to the high performance NPU? Or some
high-performance link to forwarding-plane?
If it's just plain old VM in server, why would you want to save 1kUSD
on installing compute to the rack and add complexity/risk to your
network infrastructure? JunOS, IOS-XR are very fickle already and fail
on the darnest things, I'd be very hesitant to put random VM there
without extremely compelling justification.
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++ytti
