Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

[Stefan <netfortius () gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Smith
<nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100
> Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
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> > On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote:
> > > We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches :
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> > Sounds interesting.  What chipset does this run on?
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> > Also, what's a cloud switch?  Is this a switch which forwards L2 traffic,
> > or did I miss something?
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> "Cloud" is the new mainframe i.e. "it's running somewhere else ... "
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> And the Emperor is naked ... ;-)

Coming back to the subject of cloud impact, from a network
perspective, here is an over-one-year-old recording on the subject
(Doug Gourlay's comment: "Cloud could break the Internet if not
deployed on capable networks"):

http://www.infra20.com/post.cfm/fire-infrastructure-2-0-panel-now-viewable-online#ixzz12o8QYPu1

***Stefan Mititelu
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