> existing commodity chips which CAN do IP and some pretty deep hashing > already,
This is where my doubts start :) You've mentioned QFX — is there any evidence they are much smarter in hashing than EX? Personally my take is that PTX missed the mark as far as interesting > target customer size goes. There are still a *LOT* of places where you > could very easily replace a $1mil core T/CRS box at $retardecarrier with > a $10-20k 1-2U box that does 64x10GE, or 40GE, etc. Completely agree. But IMHO (what I tried to point out in my posts above) this requires either a feature compromise (weaker LB, no facility protection, no ability to terminate inter-AS Option-C tunnels right into the core, maybe something else) or reinventing a completely new ASICs (simpler but not simple). I believe, both ways are possible, really. Let's be honest, even smooth LB can be thrown out, if you can use an $N×10k box to kick your competitor, who uses $N×1M one. On the other hand, as you mentioned, there are not much evidence of a big market for new good label-oriented ASICs. But isn't it so, because no product means no market? Yes, OpenFlow can help to sort this out :) > Of course the large carriers with the most to gain also tend to be the > least innovative and > the most unwilling to consider cost when designing their > architecture, until they go bankrupt of course. :) Oh, yeah! This why the Juniper's bias towards top players can one day become a banana peel. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp