Hi Saku,
Saku Ytti писал(а) 2023-06-09 12:09:
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 18:46, Andrey Kostin <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not in this market, have no qualification and resources for
development. The demand in such devices should be really massive to
justify a process like this.
Are you not? You use a lot of open source software, because someone
else did the hard work, and you have something practical.
The same would be the thesis here, You order the PCI NPU from newegg,
and you have an ecosystem of practical software to pull from various
sources. Maybe you'll contribute something back, maybe not.
Well, technically maybe I could do it. But putting it in production is
another story. I have to not only make it run but also make sure that
there are people who can support it 24x7. I think you said it before and
I agree that the cost of capital investment in routers is just a small
fraction in expenses for service providers. Cable infrastructure,
facilities, payroll, etc. make a bigger part, but risk of a router
failure extends to business risks like reputation and financial loss and
may have a catastrophic impact. We all know how long and difficult can
be troubleshooting and fixing a complex issue with vendor's TAC but I
consider the price we pay hardware vendors for their TAC support
partially as a liability insurance.
Very typical network is a border router or two, which needs features
and performance, then switches to connect to compute. People who have
no resources or competence to write software could still be users in
this market.
Sounds more like a datacenter setup, and for DC operator it could be
attractive to do at scale. For a traditional ISP with relatively small
PoPs spread across the country it may be not the case.
Kind regards,
Andrey
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