hey,
While I'm not sure operators want that, they will take a look if the lower price does not impact performance.
Previously mentioned centralized boxes are actually becoming more and more common now (in addition to non-redundant pizzabox formfactor that has been available for ages) that single NPU can do 2+ Tbps. For BCM J2 see ACX7509, Nokia IXR-R6d or certain Cisco NCS models. All pretty good fits for SP aggregation networks.
Single NPU doesn't mean non-redundant - those devices run two (or 4 in ACX case) BCM NPUs and switch "linecards" over to backup NPU when required. All without true fabric and distributed NPUs to keep the cost down.
IMHO these are very compelling options for SP market, you get selection of linecards for different applications/architectures yet the overall size of the device (and power consumption) is small. I've been trying to explain to one of the major vendors that they should build similar device with their own silicon so you get similar benefits while keeping the rich featureset that comes with vendor silicon compared to BCM.
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