3 points | by m101 12 hours ago ago
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Anyone heard or xsight labs? They are making networking gear for AI and spacex satellites. I'd be curious if anyone can shine a light on:
- Does full switch programmability actually matter in production, or is it one of those things that sounds great in a slide deck but nobody uses?
- Is "on-path cores" in a DPU genuinely better than Pensando's P4 approach or NVIDIA's off-path model, or does it converge at scale?
- Can you actually swap merchant silicon under SONiC in practice, or is Broadcom lock-in deeper than the software layer?
- Is there a real market for a power-optimised 12.8T switch when the spine is moving to 51.2T+, or does the spine vendor always drag the leaf along?
- How big a deal is open-sourcing the ISA? Do people buying this really care to pay up for this type of thing?
Thanks!!
Anyone heard or xsight labs? They are making networking gear for AI and spacex satellites. I'd be curious if anyone can shine a light on:
- Does full switch programmability actually matter in production, or is it one of those things that sounds great in a slide deck but nobody uses?
- Is "on-path cores" in a DPU genuinely better than Pensando's P4 approach or NVIDIA's off-path model, or does it converge at scale?
- Can you actually swap merchant silicon under SONiC in practice, or is Broadcom lock-in deeper than the software layer?
- Is there a real market for a power-optimised 12.8T switch when the spine is moving to 51.2T+, or does the spine vendor always drag the leaf along?
- How big a deal is open-sourcing the ISA? Do people buying this really care to pay up for this type of thing?
Thanks!!