On Fri 2018-Jan-05 12:50:42 -0600, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
Fiberstore is rolling out some CRAZY cheap 100Gbps switches, and I'm curious if anyone in the community has any thoughts or real-life world experience with them.
E.g.: https://www.fs.com/products/69340.html
For the price point, it's almost in the "too good to be true" category.
The price is on par with the hardware cost of other whitebox Tomahawks, e.g. Edge-Core 32x100G models like the AS7712 or AS7716 that also runs the BCM56960, so the primary distinction seems to be that you get a NOS included in that price. I have zero experience with Broadcom's ICOS as opposed to the other options on the market, so it seems to be a question of whether you're happy with that or would be e.g. paying Cumulus or $vendor a few K USD for a license for their NOS on it.
Naturally it claims to support an impressive range of features including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, VRFs, blah blah blah.
There was an earlier discussion about packet buffer issues, but, assuming for a second that it's not an issue, can anyone say they've used these and/or the L2/L3 features that they purportedly support?
Thanks! - bryan
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