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Re: IXP
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold () nipper de>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:54 +0200
On 19.04.2009 01:38 Randy Bush wrote
just curious. has anyone tried arista for smallish exchanges, before jumping off the cliff into debugging extreme, foundry, ...last time I look at them their products lacked port security or anything similiar.whoops!Iirc it's on the roadmap for thier next generation of switches.bummer, as performance and per-port cost are certainly tasty.
Indeed ... Afaik low latency is due to the fact that Arista boxes are doing cut through. Pricewise they are very attractive. And Arista EOS actually is more or less a full blown Linux which allows you to do _really_ tricky things. Arnold -- Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany email: arnold () nipper de phone: +49 6224 9259 299 mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333
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