20 Dec
2008
20 Dec
'08
11:28 a.m.
* David Coulson:
Comparing Imagestream and Vyatta to Juniper is crazy. The first two are software based platforms (with perhaps some hardware off-load for checksums and whatnot), where as the Juniper pretty much just uses BSD for control-plane features (BGP, for example, and controlling the hardware that actually does packet switching/routing).
Juniper has software-based offerings, too. Not everybody pushes multi-gigabit traffic volumes at which (software on) special processors seem to be required.