[190115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barefoot "Tofino": 6.4 Tbps whitebox switch silicon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ca By)
Wed Jun 15 23:36:19 2016
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:31:41 -0700
From: Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wednesday, June 15, 2016, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:
> a lot of PR fluff, but this may be of interest:
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> http://www.wired.com/2016/06/barefoot-networks-new-chips-will-transform-tech-industry/
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> https://barefootnetworks.com/media/white_papers/Barefoot-Worlds-Fastest-Most-Programmable-Networks.pdf
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> Based on their investors, could have interesting results for much lower
> cost 100GbE whitebox switches.
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Where is the price tag? Why would you think it is inexpensive?
I do think p4 is very interesting, but is it really much different from
openflow? Which...umm ... Did not succeed in the market.
