On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100 Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote:
We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches :
Sounds interesting. What chipset does this run on?
Also, what's a cloud switch? Is this a switch which forwards L2 traffic, or did I miss something?
"Cloud" is the new mainframe i.e. "it's running somewhere else ... "
And the Emperor is naked ... ;-)
Coming back to the subject of cloud impact, from a network perspective, here is an over-one-year-old recording on the subject (Doug Gourlay's comment: "Cloud could break the Internet if not deployed on capable networks"): http://www.infra20.com/post.cfm/fire-infrastructure-2-0-panel-now-viewable-o... ***Stefan Mititelu http://twitter.com/netfortius http://www.linkedin.com/in/netfortius