<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Alex,<div><br></div><div>Firstly, hopefully the email address + signature gives it away, but: full disclosure, I’m a Cumulus SE covering AU/NZ. Infact, I think we may have spoken at one point.</div><div><br></div><div>Pluribus hardware is actually fairly unique; it’s basically a reasonably beefy x86 server and broadcom Trident2 ODM switch fused together. It also has a relatively high bandwidth link between ASIC and the server.</div><div><br></div><div>All the switch HW Cumulus currently has on the <a href="http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/linux-hardware-compatibility-list/">HCL</a> is more of a traditional switch design; Trident/Trident+/Trident2 ASIC + low-power PPC/x86 CPU daughter card and roughly 1g between the two (mostly a limitation on the Trident’s control plane path).</div><div><br></div><div>The (relatively) beefy server in the pluribus makes it feasible to do L4-7 inspection / NAT / LB etc, that the Trident can’t do on its own. Trade-off is COGS on those boxes is relatively high, compared with the mass-produced, traditional ODM switches. It could also be argued, “why not just have a 1RU server w/ 40g NIC(s) connected to a 1RU traditional switch?”. I haven’t played with Pluribus sw, so I can’t comment on that side of it.</div><div><br></div><div>… but obviously, I work for a vendor, so take what I say with a grain of salt.</div><div><br></div><div><olive-branch>If you/anyone else wants to discuss Cumulus in more depth, happy to take it off-list.</olive-branch> :)</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Any one seen these in the wild or using them<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/</a>. Wondering how different they are from cumulus setup?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Alex<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>