On 22 June 2018 at 09:27, Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote: > What would be disruptive is someone openly publishing their ASIC/NPU > specs and P4 compiler, so that we use vanillla linux kernel to drive > the forwarding-plane.
E.g. https://netfpga.org/site/#/ + https://github.com/p4fpga/p4fpga Open source hardware and a P4 target to drive it! I've been watching these two projects for a couple of years now, very exciting stuff in my opinion however, I can't convince anyone at $dayjob to show any interest in them :( [1] Right now FGPA NICs + low end CPU are still mega expensive versus a standard Ethernet NIC + DPDK + high end CPU. However I do think it is worth getting on the front foot with these technologies, Juniper have started to support P4 which again, I convince anyone at $dayjob to look into. Cheers, James. [1] Over the years you realise that tech skills aren't super useful if you can't convince your business why a certain technology might be better for them relative to their business needs. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
