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Any links with details? The Nexus is a pretty capable switch with a lot of media options...

• mtmail 9y ago
  Presentation including AWS custom router hardware from re:Invent 2016 https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA?t=23m15s https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA?t=23m15s
• wmf 9y ago
  But Amazon doesn't want a pretty capable switch with a lot of media options; they probably want one capability (IP routing) and one or two types of media.
  • mmmBacon 9y ago
    This Exactly. Companies like Amazon, Google, FB, Microsoft need 10% of those features. However oftentimes there's a bug in the 90% of the software that they don't use which impacts something in the 10% they do use. This causes a long delay in the roll out of fixes and creates a lot of disruption in scaling out the network. Furthermore Cisco must test all those features before they can ship a new product. This results in delay of new physical layer technology into the network. What the big 4 want is that new tech to get to market faster so they can keep up with the demand. The problem ultimately is the pace of network technology is not keeping up with the demand of the webscales.
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