New Switches with Broadcom StrataDNX

[jeff.tantsura at ericsson.com (Jeff Tantsura)]

That's right, logic is in programming chips, not their property. You just need to know what to program ;-)

Regards,
Jeff

> On Jan 19, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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>> On 20/Jan/16 00:17, Phil Bedard wrote:
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>> Good point, there are many people looking at what I call FIB optimization right now.  The key is having the programmability on the device to make it happen.  Juniper/Cisco support it using policies to filter RIB->FIB and I believe both also do per-NPU/PFE localized FIBs now. I am not sure if that?s something supported on this new Broadcom chipset.  Depends on your network of course and where you are looking to position the router.    
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> I don't think the FIB needs to have specific support for selective
> programming.
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> I think that comes in the code to instruct the control plane what it
> should download to the FIB.
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> Cisco's and Juniper's support of this is on FIB that has been in
> production long before the feature became available. It was just added
> to code.
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> Mark.