On 16 June 2016 at 06:21, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Based on their investors, could have interesting results for much lower > cost 100GbE whitebox switches.
Why lower cost? The BOM isn't the expensive part, the code is the expensive part. Only way I see this happening, is if we get open source routing suite for the box, i.e. 0 cost software. If you're thinking of writing your own routing suite, even if your requirements are trivial, it's still probably take 2-3 years and +2MUSD in salaries, and then maintenance +300kUSD/year in salaries. Need quite significant annual unit number scale to make it cheap. I'm quite fascinated by the idea of doing something really novel in routing suite space, but I don't see how it could possibly work commercially. How many customers would there be for licensing COTS routing-suite when costs are millions annually to develop it for general use-case. -- ++ytti
