[j-nsp] TCAM full on EX8200?

[Chris Cappuccio]

Pavel Lunin [plunin at senetsy.ru] wrote:
> 
> Oh, yeah! This why the Juniper's bias towards top players can one day become
> a banana peel.

This is of course the "top" of the technology curve where companies like Cisco and Juniper cater only to the top end of the market, like hard drive manufacturers or computer manufacturers of 20-50 years ago.  Many of those companies didn't make it, or had to completely transform.  See books like "The Innovator's Dilemma" and many others.

The simple fact that knowledgeable folks can discuss the core technologies behind packet switching (TCAM, etc) like car guys discuss turbochargers means that someone is or will be putting together the technology and eviscerate the low and medium end of the market before too long...

OpenBSD is evolving an MPLS IP VPN and LDP implementation, and others are too.  The only real advantage that Cisco and Juniper had in the past was interoperability with a wide range of odd telco interfaces and those interfaces are basically gone now.  Network interfaces are much more standardized, compared to where we were 10 years ago.