I like how in the link Lyle provided they said that it is a 'marketing term'. In other words.... it is a new name for the same stuff so they can charge more!<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
From: Michael Havens<br>
>> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qbdgqs8" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/qbdgqs8</a><br>
<div class="im">> "Cumulus, which is building a Linux operating system for switches<br>
> that use merchant silicon, ...."<br>
><br>
> What is 'merchant silicon'?<br>
<br>
</div>Hardware (embedded or regular x86) that can be bought in large quantities<br>
off-the-shelf.<br>
<br>
A Grumpy Old Sysadmin wrote this in the Monastery on 2007-01-27:<br>
----------<br>
A commodity PC (P3 vintage) running quagga on Linux easily out-performs<br>
the specialist routing hardware in a 7000 series for ethernet to<br>
ethernet routing (full BGP table). I had to jury rig a temporary router<br>
to cover for blown PSUs on said Cisco when a certain data centre<br>
overheated, and was greatly enlightened.<br>
----------<br>
<br>
...everything old is new again, eh?<br>
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There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see<br>
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