[AusNOG] FYI: Juniper vMX is released

[Tim Raphael]

It’s the Trio chipset emulation that is the coolest part about the vMX.
Also, it explains a lot about the focus on hardware affinity, PCI pass-through and NIC dedication in recent OpenStack development…

My 2c

Tim


> On 7 Nov 2014, at 10:15 am, Peter Childs <pchilds at staff.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> Olive is just the control plane, and you typically hit issues when trying to do tricky things.
> 
> This includes the forwarding stuff built ontop of Intel DPDK which people are doing some pretty interesting stuff with.
> 
> From: Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at Conexim.com.au <mailto:jthorpe at Conexim.com.au>>
> Date: Friday, 7 November 2014 12:17 pm
> To: "ausnog at ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>" <ausnog at ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FYI: Juniper vMX is released
> 
> Juniper Olive is finally a product J
>  
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
> Sent: Friday, 7 November 2014 11:40 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>
> Subject: [AusNOG] FYI: Juniper vMX is released
>  
> For the information of all Juniper fans.
>  
> Juniper has released the Virtual MX (vMX) Router.
>  
> http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000522-en.pdf <http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000522-en.pdf>
>  
> With perpetual or yearly licensing.
>  
> About time... now I just want it in AWS, Azure, Google Compute, Softlayer and Cisco's Intercloud (I'm not joking).  Same for the vSRX (Firefly), vASA, Cisco CSR
>  
> Looks like us Network Engineers are going back to play with servers again.
> 
> ...Skeeve
>  
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