Arista Routing Solutions

Sun Apr 24 03:19:48 UTC 2016

Saku,

Jericho is in no sense a low end chip, while there are some scale limitations (what can be done with SuperFEC, some bridging related stuff), from functionality prospective it is a very capable silicon.

One has to:
Understand how to program it properly (recursiveness, ECMP’s, etc) 
Know how to enhance SDK
Have a rather rich control plane, which can be translated into rich forwarding functionality :-)

I’m not familiar with Arista’s feature set
NCS with XR would be a good proof 

Watch for Jericho updates from DNX

Cheers,
Jeff 

On 4/23/16, 11:20 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Saku Ytti" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

>On 23 April 2016 at 10:52, Tom Hill <tom at ninjabadger.net> wrote:
>> In broad strokes: for your money you're either getting port density, or
>> more features per port. The only difference here is that there's
>> suddenly more TCAM on the device, and I still don't see the above
>> changing too drastically.
>
>Yeah OP is comparing high touch chip (MX104) to low touch chip
>(Jericho) that is not fair comparison. And cost is what customer is
>willing to pay, regardless of sticker on the box. No one will pay
>significant mark-up for another sticker, I've never seen in RFP
>significant differences in comparable products.
>
>Fairer comparison would be QFX10k, instead of MX104. QFX10k is AFAIK
>only product in this segment which is not using Jericho. If this is
>competitive advantage or risk, jury is still out, I lean towards
>competitive advantage, mainly due to its memory design.
>
>-- 
>  ++ytti