Speaker
Mr
Alex Nichol
(Arista)
Description
The widespread adoption of merchant silicon has caused a massive disruption in the data centre market, with traditional hardware networking vendors struggling to maintain differentiation as silicon evolves on a year on year basis to provide improved cost per performance. With previous generations of merchant silicon, table scale, and forwarding logic limited their deployment to within the data centre, with routing still seen as the playground of the traditional vendors. This approach is now being disrupted by the latest evolution of merchant silicon, which blurs the line between switching and routing logic and software innovation which can extend the default hardware capabilities of the merchant silicon.
Summary
Arista in their presentation would like to discuss the evolution of the latest merchant silicon, and how the disruption in the data centre switching market is now moving to the routing market where the latest silicon, can provide full Internet table support with high-density 100G at a fraction of the cost of traditional routing platforms.
