[j-nsp] Juniper PTX1000

[Colton Conor]

Lets not forget, the list price for a limited PTX1000 is $650,000. Even
with a substantial 95 percent off list discount, it is nowhere close to the
same ballpark as the Arista solution.

Because Arista has no other routing solution out there, I think they have a
pricing advantage. The spent almost nothing on the hardware since its a
Broadcom Jericho chipset, and can focus on the software. Plus, they don't
have to worry about cannibalizing their routing sales because they only
have one routing product. Unlike Cisco/Juniper, who have to make sure they
don't price their products too low making people jump ship from one of
their routing lines to another.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

> On 20 December 2016 at 18:42,  <adamv0025 at netconsultings.com> wrote:
>
> > Both CRS-X and NCS6k are powered by nPower X1e NPU.
> > And my understanding is that it's Homogeneous(Same PPE type) MPSoC i.e.
> Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), much like all the chips out there (used in
> ASR9k or MX and PTX, ...).
> > The difference I understand is in the instruction set that the PPE is
> running.
> > And my guess is that threads on each PPE are using run to completion
> scheduling.
> > Let me know your thoughts please.
> >
> > And by pipeline with regards to NPU design I understand pipelining of
> arrays of PPEs where each array in the pipeline consists of PPEs dedicated
> to a specific function(parse search modify). -like in ASR9k.
>
> Current gen ASR9k, EZchip, is like Trio, ALU FP or Huawei Solar, many
> identical cores, fully programmable, essentially you're only limited
> by time in what you can do. Where as NCS5k/Arista/Jericho, PTX are
> ASIC/pipelines, with much more specialised hardware with lot less
> flexibility, but what they do do, they do far more efficiently, which
> means denser boxes are pragmatic.
> Roughly speaking pipeline/ASIC is great for core, DC, in Edge you
> often may require richer features offered by NPU designs, and density
> isn't that crucial.
>
>
> --
>   ++ytti
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