[AusNOG] pluribus networks

[Sam Wilson]

From an outsider looking in there is lots of interesting options emerging!

Perhaps to broaden the topic I would be keen to hear any advice or experience with ZNYX kit also.

http://www.znyx.com

Sam


> On 3 Feb 2015, at 19:00, Doug Youd <doug at cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> All the switch HW Cumulus currently has on the HCL 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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> … but obviously, I work for a vendor, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
> 
> <olive-branch>If you/anyone else wants to discuss Cumulus in more depth, happy to take it off-list.</olive-branch> :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Douglas Youd | Cumulus Networks
> cumulusnetworks.com
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> 
>> On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>>  
>> Any one seen these in the wild or using them http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/. Wondering how different they are from cumulus setup?
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>> Alex
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