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> High end network switches are effectively a commodity now, and often are not much more than a board built around a single chip/chipset, which does everything.
by dehrmann 4y ago
> High end network switches are effectively a commodity now, and often are not much more than a board built around a single chip/chipset, which does everything.
Is this really the case? I worked on the Cat6k in the late 2000's, and it was definitely not a single chipset. Maybe it's different when you get to switches that can support 300+ ports.
- the_biot 4y agoCisco may have been slow to take advantage of the commoditization of these switch chips, for obvious reasons: it was in large part their market that was being commoditized. I would argue this is even more pronounced on the lower end now, with I think mostly Marvell and Realtek chips.