[188916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista Routing Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Sun Apr 24 11:03:03 2016
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 08:02:57 -0700
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 24 April 2016 at 05:14, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
> High Touch / Low Touch
High touch means very general purpose NPU, with off-chip memory. Low
touch means usually ASIC or otherwise simplified pipeline and on-chip
memory. Granted Jericho can support off-chip memory too.
L3 switches are canonical example of low touch. EZchip, Trio, Solar,
FP3 etc are examples of canonical high touch NPUs. What low touch can
do, it can do fast and economically.
But like few terms, it's not exact, and borders are hazy and even subjective.
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