Routers in Data Centers

Mon Sep 27 00:35:34 UTC 2010

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM,  <ym1r.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know open source solutions doesn't have support for fabric or high speed asics. So the throughput will always be a big difference. Unless you are comparing a pure packet software interrupt platform.

Not high speed ASICs, but there are hardware-forwarding open-source(in
a broad definition) solutions:
http://netfpga.org

There are 3 related presentations on NANOG 50, which suggests these
solutions are reaching "real ops" quality.

Rubens