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RE: Open source hardware
From: "Raymond Burkholder" <ray () oneunified net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:10:48 -0400
Vyatta and now VyOS are important projects for networking. We really need to get away from locked down non-free hardware and software for critical infrastructure. It's natural that most of the people in this community (myself included) will be fans of companies like Cisco and Juniper and dismiss anything
else,
but that mindset for me change when I deployed 100+ whitebox units 3 years ago and saved nearly a million in the process.
If all you want to do is push regular packets around, these opensource alternatives might be adequate to the task. But many networks catering to business endpoints deal with private circuit issues. Which generally leads to an MPLS/VPLS based infrastructure. Which I havn't seen in a reliable opensource flavor. But I could be mistaken. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Current thread:
- Re: Open source hardware, (continued)
- Re: Open source hardware Andrew Duey (Jan 02)
- Re: Open source hardware Jimmy Hess (Jan 02)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Darren Pilgrim (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 05)
- Re: Open source hardware TGLASSEY (Jan 06)
- Re: Open source hardware Andrew Duey (Jan 02)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 03)
- RE: Open source hardware Raymond Burkholder (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Benno Overeinder (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Nick Hilliard (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Mark Tinka (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Vlade Ristevski (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Brandon Ross (Jan 08)