subject: Traditional Routing Technology Of New Forces In Mid [print this page] The Interop conference in some time ago from Cisco, Juniper and Vyatta's routing technology executives selected for a debate. The Interop conference in some time ago from Cisco, Juniper and Vyatta's routing technology executives selected for a debate. As a traditional routing technology and open source routing solutions, a typical representative of several companies to discuss a certain value, in order to help the user to re-consider the routing options.
The debate on the routing choice
Vyatta's Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy bold challenge to the current routing technology and to consider Router Equipment ideas. In his view, the custom hardware, network technology market today is like 60 years of mainframe market, the current rule by a vendor of network technology market, the traditional routing technology vendors avoid the use of open source solutions. He acknowledged that Cisco has "good technology", and the existence of these technologies in the market place. However, he is convinced that the routing function is a commodity that can be provided by open source solutions, the price is only a fraction of traditional routers.
Cisco Company Marketing Under JonathanDavidson mentioned, Cisco's device has open-source solutions do not have the high availability features, to answer the question Roberts. Although Roberts is not clear at this point that the views against Davidson, but he asked to Davidson to support such high availability features at the lowest cost price of Cisco routers. Davidson replied that the price of at least 35,000 U.S. dollars.
Juniper, senior director of product line management to the Davidson side AmirKhan station. He said IT Institutions must pay more attention to complex and advanced routing features, such as routers and support for self-monitoring uninterrupted routing capability.
This debate gives us something to think about, if you are concerned about routing technology, they would find a lot of things taking place, such as special equipment to give up the trend. This is a bit like "Back to the Future", because the first router that is running Minicomputer On software-based router. You may ask questions, and now appears to the open source movement direction is reasonable? We really need this router? On the other hand, you will encounter the opposite problem. We need a more reliable router, or even greater scalability it?
The need to reconsider the routing
With Financial Communication services, they often say: "We are the zero-delay direction, now there are some applications microsecond." For example, you are a broker, a stock purchase orders. So the best immediate course of the next one, otherwise you may as 100 million shares of stock price rose a point or half point, while paying a heavy price.
Therefore, we have incredibly low latency routing technology, do have a really high demand. The opposite. There are also some of the open-source, lower cost and basic functional needs, and the incredible scalability needs. If we are talking about thousands of data centers in Taiwan Server Each server is running 10 virtual machines, must be able to complete tens of thousands of different devices, switching and routing, it must reconsider the basic component of this.
When IT organizations deploy new routers and Switch , They often hope that these devices have a very long lifetime. However, the challenge is to ensure that these devices not only can support the demands of today and the recent demand that may arise, and also supports a number of years before emerging needs.
An impact the current trend in routing technology, most IT organizations will shift servers from branch offices to centralized data centers. The IT sector is also supported by data centers to reduce the number, and where possible the deployment of server virtualization. This has resulted in "putting all their eggs in one basket," the phenomenon of corporate data becomes more important for business operations, it must provide the highest levels of availability, as well as higher levels of transport stream aggregation and scalability.
A large financial services organization, vice president of architecture, said the agency has deployed various forms of virtualization technology, and promote the fundamental elements of these projects is to optimize the cost. He added that the additional results as virtualization, data centers used to achieve the five 9's availability goal of becoming no longer acceptable, new goal is 100% availability.
