[84596] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: image stream routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Boehnlein)
Fri Sep 16 21:19:50 2005
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050917010942.2C06417EB@fiji.merit.edu>
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> I'd be interested to know the relative pros and cons of switching packets in
> software (Imagestream) versus handing them off to a dedicated ASIC (Cisco,
> Juniper)
Probably a good question for Imagestream to answer, as I can't speak to
it. I'd guess that at some point everything is Software Switched at some
level.. the ASIC has to run some sort of software.. :)
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