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
_______________________________________________
foundry-nsp mailing list
[email protected]
http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
