On 4/Aug/20 17:38, adamv0025@netconsultings.com wrote:

Wondering whether the industry will consider containerised data-plane in addition to control-plane (like cRDP).

Having just control-plane and then hacking to kernel for doing the data-plane bit is …well not as straight forward as having a dedicated data-plane VM or potentially container.

Well, there has been some discussion in the past 2 years about whether vendors can open up some of their data planes and allow those with enough energy and clue (that means not me, hehe) to have their take on what they can do with the chips in some kind of form factor, even without their OS.

Outside of that, merchant silicon is the next step, before we try to hack it on general-purpose CPU's, as we've been doing for some time.

Mark.