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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by bogomipz on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:47PM (#11867249)
Sorry, what is Tomahawk?
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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by hannesgredler on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @11:58PM (#11867453)
Its a 3TBits/s chipset from Broadcom https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-communication-and...
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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by bogomipz on Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:21AM (#11868875)
Thanks for the link, but how does this relate to my comment asking comment asking why you can't build your own router with commodity hardware? Isn't the Tommahawk and Jericho intended for ODMs who are building traditional switches?
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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by wmf on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:39PM (#11871407)
It's pointless to use anything other than these ASICs because their price/performance is so far ahead. Software routing is especially pointless.
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