Re: New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

So can this compete routing wise against something like a Juniper MX104 or
Cisco ASR 9001?

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:42 PM, lincoln dale <ltd () interlink com au> wrote:

> Yes. We also have 1M+ FIB support day one too - hence the letter 'R'
> denoting the evolution with 3rd generation of its evolution to internet
> edge/router use cases.
>
> Not sure what other vendors are doing but I doubt others are yet shipping
> large table support.
> (there's more to it than just the underlying native silicon)
>
>
> cheers,
>
> lincoln. (ltd () arista com)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > As a follow up to this post, it look like the Arista 7500R series has this
> > new chip inside of it.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Jeff Tantsura <
> > jeff.tantsura () ericsson com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That's right, logic is in programming chips, not their property. You
> > just
> > > need to know what to program ;-)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > > On Jan 19, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
> > wrote:
> > > > > On 20/Jan/16 00:17, Phil Bedard wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Good point, there are many people looking at what I call FIB
> > > optimization right now.  The key is having the programmability on the
> > > device to make it happen.  Juniper/Cisco support it using policies to
> > > filter RIB->FIB and I believe both also do per-NPU/PFE localized FIBs
> > now.
> > > I am not sure if that’s something supported on this new Broadcom
> > chipset.
> > > Depends on your network of course and where you are looking to position
> > the
> > > router.
> > > > I don't think the FIB needs to have specific support for selective
> > > > programming.
> > > >
> > > > I think that comes in the code to instruct the control plane what it
> > > > should download to the FIB.
> > > >
> > > > Cisco's and Juniper's support of this is on FIB that has been in
> > > > production long before the feature became available. It was just added
> > > > to code.
> > > >
> > > > Mark.