3 ms·
Stuck at 1GbE/10GbE and yea commodity will catch up. When $VENDOR is using off-the-shelf chip to do same speed for cheaper they expose themselves to whitebox ve
by whatupmd 9y ago
Stuck at 1GbE/10GbE and yea commodity will catch up. When $VENDOR is using off-the-shelf chip to do same speed for cheaper they expose themselves to whitebox vendors competition.
If there is no market or government pressure to level-up infrastructure (just optimizing existing network) not sure how $VENDOR will carve out any new revenue.
- scurvy 9y agoWhite box silicon is OK if you're deploying a campus, deploying a cloud where customers have no insight into the network, or situations where small packet performance doesn't matter. Everyone uses Broadcom (even though Mellanox spectrum is better), and Broadcom chipsets are trash. They're basically dump trucks that move lots of big packets, but can't do anything else. There will always be markets that want vendor designed NPU's because small packet performance, versatility, etc. Juniper QFX 10k has shown that they can compete and beat Broadcom at their own game. After watching Arista Broadcom switches drop traffic for years (they are lossy, sorry folks), I'm not touching them again. It's sad because they had something really special with their earlier products. I even owned some Arastra gear (yes, they renamed early on).