[c-nsp] LSR platforms

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> From: Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 9:15 AM
> 
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 11:02, <adamv0025 at netconsultings.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm hesitant to recommend Broadcom based platform (NCS5k/Arista/ACX)
> for platform certification testing in a worry that it will bite us in a long run,
> though less so for a P role (as opposed to PE role).
> 
> You will struggle to use data to state why Broadcom has fundamentally
> different risk profile than Spitfire and BT/paradise. Now I understand for
> Cisco, clearly their focus will be Spitfire going forward. But that argument
> can't be used to discriminate against Arista. Jericho and Spitfire were literally
> designed under the same leadership.
> 
Sorry buddy you lost me with the NPU codenames :)
With "Spitfire" do you mean the "Silicon One Q100" by Israeli Leaba Semiconductor (bought by cisco in 2016) founders include Eyal Dagan and Ofer Iny, founders of Dune Networks, which got sold to Broadcom in 2009 please?
And with "paradise" I guess you mean the PTX NPU? Not sure what you mean by "BT" though.

adam