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We want to shoot for all of the things we want in open switches, but you can’t boil the ocean. We want hardware disaggregated from software, and we want to depl
by jdmitch 13y ago
We want to shoot for all of the things we want in open switches, but you can’t boil the ocean. We want hardware disaggregated from software, and we want to deploy that hardware in production.
I can't decide if this sounds a bit defeatist or is just pragmatic - isn't the goal lofty enough to require the ambition to boil the ocean?
- bitops 13y agoNot really - look at Nicira, which was bought by VMware for a cool $1B. There's a lot of innovative work happening in the network virtualization space at the moment.
- pkj 13y agoSure, we are trying through global warming :) On a serious note, take a look at cumulus networks[1] who claim to solve the hw/sw disaggregation problem. They have a linux OS distro which can run on h/w of multiple vendors ( not the popular ones like cisco/jnpr/hp/brcd etc.. since those are closed platforms). [1] http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/ http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/
- devicenull 13y agoI so wish that pricing was available for any of their supported hardware :/
- wmf 13y agoSee http://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/showsearchresults.asp?IDBrand=31&iPageSize=50 http://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/showsearchresults.asp?I...