Vyatta as a BRAS

Tue Jul 13 15:25:53 UTC 2010

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:11:57 am Greg Whynott wrote:
> > They are all software based, no matter who builds them.  Cisco IOS, 
> > Juniper JunOS, etc.
> 
> controlling hardware asic's and fpga's.  

That run low level software microcode and bitstreams.  Sorry, it's software running those ASIC's and FPGA's, even at that level.  Verilog and VHDL, while not your ordinary programming languages, blur the line very effectively.