> > On Jun 19, 2020, at 08:06, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > >> On 19/Jun/20 14:50, Tim Durack wrote: >> >> If y'all can deal with the BU, the Cat9k family is looking >> half-decent: MPLS PE/P, BGP L3VPN, BGP EVPN (VXLAN dataplane not MPLS) >> etc. >> UADP programmable pipeline ASIC, FIB ~200k, E-LLW, mandatory DNA >> license now covers software support... >> >> Of course you do have to deal with a BU that lives in a parallel >> universe (SDA, LISP, NEAT etc) - but the hardware is the right >> price-perf, and IOS-XE is tolerable. >> >> No large FIB today, but Cisco appears to be headed towards "Silicon >> One" for all of their platforms: RTC ASIC strapped over some HBM. The >> strategy is interesting: sell it as a chip, sell it whitebox, sell it >> fully packaged. >> >> YMMV > > I'd like to hear what Gert thinks, though. I'm sure he has a special > place for the word "Catalyst" :-). > > Oddly, if Silicon One is Cisco's future, that means IOS XE may be headed > for the guillotine, in which case investing any further into an IOS XE > platform could be dicey at best, egg-face at worst. > > I could be wrong...
never underestimate the desire of product managers and engineering teams to have their own petri dishes to swim around in. -- steve ulrich (sulrich@botwerks.*)
