Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Comcast invests in Vyatta, open source router maker
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The company has raised a total of $18.5 million so far. The
>| investment indicates that cable carriers are getting serious
>| about chasing the small and medium sized businesses, and
>| competing with the telephone companies in more than just
>| consumer markets.
> `----
>
> http://gigaom.com/2007/04/01/vyatta-comcast/
>
> Cisco could be facing the 'Red Hat effect'. The FUD rebuttal has already
> begun.
>
I'm sure that this will run and run. What's really required is to
commit the forwarding engine to silicon, perhaps as an Asic, and to use
some really high-speed backplane technology, like the fibre backplane in
the ATCA chassis, say.
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