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Re: Open source hardware
From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:38:28 +0200
On (2014-01-04 12:08 +0100), Benno Overeinder wrote:
No hands-on experience with Cumulus Networks equipment, but from what I have heard I like their approach to open hardware/software for routing equipment. It is flexible what you want to configure and run (all open source software). For the hardware switching support they license their Switch HAL module.
I love the notion of COTS control-plane software, it has potential to fundamentally change the market dynamics. COTS ASICs (bcom the most prominient) and COTS NPU (ezchip, xelerated/marvell) have done lot of good to the market in terms of features/performance/price. Right now some of the big name vendors are running really archaic and naive control-planes, and it's hard for them internally to justify project to rebuild it all, because customers will largely accept even the shitty control-plane, because that is only thing you get with that hardware. Company doing only COTS control-plane can't get away with shitty software, it's their only product. And conversely, they can get away having many generation of incompatible operating systems, as older customers will keep on wanting+paying on the development of the older version while newer greenfield customers will want to start with the latest generation. This creates pressure on the established companies to have great control-plane, not some 20 year old TTM house of cards. -- ++ytti
Current thread:
- Re: Open source hardware, (continued)
- Re: Open source hardware Darren Pilgrim (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 05)
- Re: Open source hardware TGLASSEY (Jan 06)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 03)
- RE: Open source hardware Raymond Burkholder (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Benno Overeinder (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Nick Hilliard (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Mark Tinka (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Vlade Ristevski (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Brandon Ross (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: Open source hardware Aled Morris (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Mark Tinka (Jan 08)