Between whitebox and SDN. These companies won't be selling hardware for the 1-200% markup the have enjoyed all these years.
Between whitebox and SDN. These companies won't be selling hardware for the 1-200% markup the have enjoyed all these years.
huh :) i was/am under the impression that with junos, juniper started with freebsd as the core, and then added lot's of stuff to it, specifically in control-plane and a bunch of kernel extensions as well.
if that is true, they were already x86 compatible...
with cisco things are very different. i don't think ios ever ran on a bare-metal x86. this is not for the lack of trying though (if you know folks who have worked on ios, check with them, writing about it here, doesn't seem right)
Newer products use virtualization, i.e. running the FreeBSD-based Junos control plane in a VM.
If you look up for IOU, which stands for IOs over Unix, it has been around for quit a long time.