[188851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colton Conor)
Mon Apr 18 14:46:52 2016
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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:44:46 -0500
From: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
To: lincoln dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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So can this compete routing wise against something like a Juniper MX104 or
Cisco ASR 9001?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:42 PM, lincoln dale <ltd@interlink.com.au> wrote:
> Yes. We also have 1M+ FIB support day one too - hence the letter 'R'
> denoting the evolution with 3rd generation of its evolution to internet
> edge/router use cases.
>
> Not sure what other vendors are doing but I doubt others are yet shipping
> large table support.
> (there's more to it than just the underlying native silicon)
>
>
> cheers,
>
> lincoln. (ltd@arista.com)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As a follow up to this post, it look like the Arista 7500R series has th=
is
>> new chip inside of it.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Jeff Tantsura <
>> jeff.tantsura@ericsson.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > That's right, logic is in programming chips, not their property. You
>> just
>> > need to know what to program ;-)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> > > On Jan 19, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On 20/Jan/16 00:17, Phil Bedard wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Good point, there are many people looking at what I call FIB
>> > optimization right now. The key is having the programmability on the
>> > device to make it happen. Juniper/Cisco support it using policies to
>> > filter RIB->FIB and I believe both also do per-NPU/PFE localized FIBs
>> now.
>> > I am not sure if that=E2=80=99s something supported on this new Broadc=
om
>> chipset.
>> > Depends on your network of course and where you are looking to positio=
n
>> the
>> > router.
>> > >
>> > > I don't think the FIB needs to have specific support for selective
>> > > programming.
>> > >
>> > > I think that comes in the code to instruct the control plane what it
>> > > should download to the FIB.
>> > >
>> > > Cisco's and Juniper's support of this is on FIB that has been in
>> > > production long before the feature became available. It was just add=
ed
>> > > to code.
>> > >
>> > > Mark.
>> >
>>
>
>
