On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 14:04, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even Cisco sort of went down this path with the CRS-3 when they - very > briefly - sold the so-called CRS LSP (Label Switch Processor) forwarding > engine: ASR9k also has low and high scale cards, we buy the low scale, even for edge. But even low scale is pretty high scale in this context. I think there would be market for on-chip only LSR/core cards. Ultimately if you design for that day1, it won't add lot of costs to you. Yes the BOM difference may not be that great, because ultimately silicon is cheap and costs are in NRE. But the on-chip only cards would have bit more ports and they'd have better availability due to less component failures. I would fight very hard for us buy such cards in core, if vendor would offer them. Like the trio-in-pci full open, I think this is just marketing failure. Vendors are wearing their DC glasses and don't see anything else. While the big-name DC are lost cause, AMZN employs more chip designers than JNPR, matter of time before JNPR loses amzn edge too to internal amzn product. Someone with bit bolder vision on what the market could be, may have real opportunity here. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
