Comment on Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switchComments−MrZipf11yThis looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco does.The talk was on HN a little while ago, worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQThe scale at FB means they're probably saving hundreds of millions doing this.
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This looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco does.
The talk was on HN a little while ago, worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ
The scale at FB means they're probably saving hundreds of millions doing this.