On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Smith <na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100 > Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > >> On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote: >> > We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches : >> >> Sounds interesting. What chipset does this run on? >> >> Also, what's a cloud switch? Is this a switch which forwards L2 traffic, >> or did I miss something? >> > > "Cloud" is the new mainframe i.e. "it's running somewhere else ... " > > > > > > And the Emperor is naked ... ;-)
Coming back to the subject of cloud impact, from a network perspective, here is an over-one-year-old recording on the subject (Doug Gourlay's comment: "Cloud could break the Internet if not deployed on capable networks"): http://www.infra20.com/post.cfm/fire-infrastructure-2-0-panel-now-viewable-online#ixzz12o8QYPu1 ***Stefan Mititelu http://twitter.com/netfortius http://www.linkedin.com/in/netfortius
