Re: Distributed Router Fabrics

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 10:15 AM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:

> Actually, as I read more about it and watch more videos about it, it seems
> like that isn't necessarily true. The claims they have at the top end
> surpass what any chassis platform I've seen is capable of, though I don't
> know that they actually have pushed the upper bounds of what's possible in
> the real world.
I wonder how large a failure domain folk are willing to accept.

I also don't know that it's actually better to have 1 thing vs N things,
since management of the
things is probably the expensive part (once you get past space/power which
don't seem to be
part of the calculations here (not in my brief read of the thread at least).

-chris