[f-nsp] Brocade SLX 9850

[Jörg Kost]

Hi,

I found this report called „On the feasibility of converting AMS-IX to 
an Industrial-Scale Software Defined Internet Exchange Point“ about 
MLXe, AMS-IX and future platform SLX  from a SDN point of view.  Maybe 
some of you will find this interesting:

http://delaat.net/rp/2015-2016/p26/report.pdf

Jörg

On 26 Sep 2016, at 5:04, Wilbur Smith wrote:

> The initial launch of the SLX is targeted at the datacenter core/edge 
> and for large internet peering providers, but that’s just because 
> we’re taking a conservative approach to rolling out new features in 
> the code; better to launch with a limited, but stable feature set than 
> breaking everything (aka the original Nexus launch).
>
> Price is very completive for high-density 10G/40G/100G and not a 
> single port on the box is oversubscribed. There’s also a built in 
> hypervisor to run a Linux based VM for analytics. The chassis has a 
> separate OOB data path for mirroring traffic to the analytics VM, so a 
> customer can deploy their own application/script onto the VM, then 
> configure the chassis to send a copy of data traversing the chassis 
> directly to that VM. This is all done without impacting the existing 
> backplane bandwidth, so heavy network load wont stall out the onboard 
> analytics function. This is a major capability we built into SLX at 
> the request of our large cloud & service provider customers.
>
> The OS that runs on the SLX is also Ubuntu based, so for the first 
> time you can run scripts directly on the box similar to our fiber 
> channel switches or what you can do with Juniper.
>
> Wilbur