On Friday, January 03, 2014 03:33:56 PM Saku Ytti wrote: > Right now, if you need perfomance, you're going to have > to buy something like bcom chip and then cumulusnetworks > linux on top of it, it's as close to 'open source' as > you're going to get with good performance. And this is > more or less DC stuff, SP market needs more intelligent > chips than those ASICs, and I don't think there anything > 'open source' in the market place for NPU stuff.
Indeed. Broadcom are making lots of interesting cheap and fast ASIC's, but they're data centre focused, or serve a specific platform feature set with Cisco/Juniper that has a number of restrictions, just to keep the costs down. Mark.
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