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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/Aug/20 16:15,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:adamv0025@netconsultings.com">adamv0025@netconsultings.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I
was actually talking about routing on the host and virtual
control-plane and virtualized data-plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Currently
we either have a VM combining both or a separate VM for
each. Alternatively we can have a container for the
control-plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I
was wondering if the idea behind containerization is to do
virtual data-plane as a container as well.</span></p>
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Good question.<br>
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My understanding of cloud-native that the mobile folk want is to
deliver over-the-top services, and not necessarily turn containers
into packet-forwarding routers at scale. However, the question is
interesting, so we'll see.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In
terms of containerization on vendor HW or opening up
data-plane, seems like XR7 from Cisco is leading the way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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System runs in containers on RE and Line-cards, allows one
to run 3<sup>rd</sup> party containers, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Allows one to run 3<sup>rd</sup> party routing protocols to
program RIB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Allows one to program FIB via Open Forwarding Abstraction
(OFA) APIs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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And XR itself can run on selected 3<sup>rd</sup> party HW. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">That
pretty much covers all the avenues we as operators are
interested in, of course it’s not all just roses and
unicorns and there will be further development and
streamlining necessary. </span></p>
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That's a good start, indeed. Do we know if Cisco are opening up
their own data plane, or Broadcom ones?<br>
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Mark.<br>
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