Re: sfp "computer"?

[Andriy Bilous <andriy.bilous () gmail com>]

There are also modules for ISR G2 (quite powerfull) which can host
OS/Hypervisor
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-e-series-servers/data_sheet_c78-705787.pdf

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:

> On 20 October 2015 at 01:42, Chip Marshall <chip () 2bithacker net> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> > See page 4 on the spec sheet:
> > http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000531-en.pdf
> >
> > No idea what's involved with packaging the VM and getting it there, but
> > should open up some interesting possibilties.
>
> What are those possibilities? How can you leverage VM in your
> router/switch? Do you have access to the high performance NPU? Or some
> high-performance link to forwarding-plane?
>
> If it's just plain old VM in server, why would you want to save 1kUSD
> on installing compute to the rack and add complexity/risk to your
> network infrastructure? JunOS, IOS-XR are very fickle already and fail
> on the darnest things, I'd be very hesitant to put random VM there
> without extremely compelling justification.
>
> --
>   ++ytti