Saku, I agree completely. Isn't this what Arista did? They coded from like 2004 to 2008 before launching EOS using commercial chipsets. You seem to really understand routing software, so I would love to hear your take on Arista EOS.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > 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 >
