ROS/SwOS on Whitebox Switches
Posted:Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:43 am
Hi just throwing this idea out there.
Have you guys at Mikrotik ever played with the idea of running your own flavor of operating system on top of these Quanta/Edge Core whitebox switches or rebranding some and introducing your own product line ? We generally throw a minimum of 7-20k at HP/Dell for high density SFP+ switches at the distribution layer, and had one of those Edge Core switches on trial loaded with Cumulus.Performance was freaking terrific due to the awesome Trident 2 chipset on the switch bbbbuuuttttt
while I get the Cumulus thinking behind it , the support costs are pretty high when you add up a whole bunch of switches (10Gbit $999 ,40Gbit $1299 per year per switch) and having to deal with the linux shells instead of some wrapper/overlay takes away a lot of the user friendliness and lower end tech serviceability
I don't think it would really eat into the CCR1072 lineup because there are always things you can only do on a Router (Nat,Proper Packet Inspection/Traffic flow) that are usually unsupported on L3 Switches.
Have you guys at Mikrotik ever played with the idea of running your own flavor of operating system on top of these Quanta/Edge Core whitebox switches or rebranding some and introducing your own product line ? We generally throw a minimum of 7-20k at HP/Dell for high density SFP+ switches at the distribution layer, and had one of those Edge Core switches on trial loaded with Cumulus.Performance was freaking terrific due to the awesome Trident 2 chipset on the switch bbbbuuuttttt
while I get the Cumulus thinking behind it , the support costs are pretty high when you add up a whole bunch of switches (10Gbit $999 ,40Gbit $1299 per year per switch) and having to deal with the linux shells instead of some wrapper/overlay takes away a lot of the user friendliness and lower end tech serviceability
I don't think it would really eat into the CCR1072 lineup because there are always things you can only do on a Router (Nat,Proper Packet Inspection/Traffic flow) that are usually unsupported on L3 Switches.