Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

Radu-Adrian Feurdean nanog at radu-adrian.feurdean.net
Fri Jun 19 08:57:30 UTC 2020


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, at 10:11, Mark Tinka wrote:
> 
> On 19/Jun/20 09:20, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote:
> >
> > A whole ocean of "datacenter" hardware, from pretty much evey vendor.
> 
> You mean the ones deliberately castrated so that we can create a
> specific "DC vertical", even if they are, pretty much, the same box a
> service provider will buy, just given a darker color so it can glow more
> brightly in the data centre night?

Yes, exactly that one.
Which also happens to spill outside the DC area, because the main "vertical" allows it to be sold at lower prices.



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