[j-nsp] TCAM full on EX8200?

[Jeff Wheeler]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Julien Goodwin
<jgoodwin at studio442.com.au> wrote:
> Arista is the one company that seems poised to actually take this on and
> keep coming out with good hardware, at a decent price, with a powerful,
> open control plane. Their kit isn't Openflow interoperable yet that I
> know of, but that should be doable.

Every time I speak to Arista, I say, "you know, if your software had
MPLS features at this price-point, we and everyone else would like to
buy a lot more of them..." but they do not seem to understand the size
of the market that is available to them.  I'm sure they are doing a
lot of good business in 10Gb ToR / End-of-Row, and are clearly quite
good at it.  The large amount of R&D needed to be an MPLS P box is, in
their mind, not worth the potential business.

I hope all of you guys say the same thing to your Arista rep whenever
you order their kit for more ordinary uses.  I agree that the biggest
threat to Juniper and Cisco is Arista, but I don't think Arista knows
it! :-)

-- 
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts