On 12/14/20 15:28, [email protected] wrote:
But another view point might be, With merchant silicon it's all about who has the biggest buying power (bigger lobby) right? For example: cisco says we need the capability to implement feature X in a single pass through the new chip, while juniper and arista says we need it in two passes via recirc. to spare chip resources for feature Z. -well in this example it's tough luck for cisco. And similarly I imagine this applies to all levels of the stack from actual chip architecture all the way to SDKs. If Cisco says screw this I'm going to design my own chip and always going o prioritize my own needs then consider needs of others (to an extent obviously), then I could see how Cisco box for role A powered by Cisco's own merchant silicon chip will either perform better or have richer feature set than a Cisco box for the same role A but powered by a comparable Broadcom chip.
For Cisco, Juniper and Nokia, Broadcom is a "me too" move, so they can put a foot in the door (and hopefully, sell you long enough to the point where you buy their own silicon).
For Arista, Arrcus, e.t.c., it's their bread & butter. Mark. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
