15 Dec
2025
15 Dec
'25
1:21 p.m.
On 15/12/2025 14:52, Tom Beecher via NANOG wrote:
- Lots of ports - Lots of FIB - Cheap
Pick 2
It is really interesting that pluggables technology is outpacing "not a lack of" forwarding capacity, but accessibility. 25.6T (400G) and 51.2T (800G) chips are around in all shapes, sizes and prices, but getting a package of ports and a mature NOS in one chassis is proving to be quite the challenge when typical network operators need to grow beyond 100G, without having to mortgage the cows. 1.6T pluggables should make commercial landfall by Q3'26. I'm not sure router/switch vendors will have a compelling offer for operators outside of the cloud & content space by then, or even two years out following that. Mark.