On 5/Aug/20 16:15, [email protected] wrote:
> I was actually talking about routing on the host and virtual > control-plane and virtualized data-plane. > > Currently we either have a VM combining both or a separate VM for > each. Alternatively we can have a container for the control-plane. > > I was wondering if the idea behind containerization is to do virtual > data-plane as a container as well. > Good question. My understanding of cloud-native that the mobile folk want is to deliver over-the-top services, and not necessarily turn containers into packet-forwarding routers at scale. However, the question is interesting, so we'll see. > > > In terms of containerization on vendor HW or opening up data-plane, > seems like XR7 from Cisco is leading the way: > > - System runs in containers on RE and Line-cards, allows one to run > 3^rd party containers, > > - Allows one to run 3^rd party routing protocols to program RIB > > - Allows one to program FIB via Open Forwarding Abstraction (OFA) APIs > > - And XR itself can run on selected 3^rd party HW. > > > > That pretty much covers all the avenues we as operators are interested > in, of course it’s not all just roses and unicorns and there will be > further development and streamlining necessary. > That's a good start, indeed. Do we know if Cisco are opening up their own data plane, or Broadcom ones? Mark.
