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Nobody wants to depend on hardware development cycle hence “fuck it, ill do it in software”
by dilyevsky 3y ago
Nobody wants to depend on hardware development cycle hence “fuck it, ill do it in software”
- duped 3y agoI don't think it's that hard to rely on hardware development, it's more of a problem of rolling out a fleet of new hardware. It's just not realistic to take all the switches, routers, and other garbage you've got in between points in the network off the rack/ceiling/wall/pole because the hardware can't support some protocol. Good evidence for this is the rollout of fiber, which has been happening neighborhood by neighborhood and house by house for a decade.
- dilyevsky 3y agoI was mainly talking about your own dc but yes if you need to traverse public infra it’s a complete non-starter. But also it’s not like middle boxes offer you any sort of sdn api - you still need to overlay