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Today’s Weekly Show is a free-form discussion between Ethan and Greg on a variety of topics that’ve been on their minds, including the switch-over to SSL of PacketPushers.net, which led to some inadvertent Twitter-spamming, for which they are sorry. (Failing at scale–wheee!)
Other discussion topics include network disaggregation, whether open networking and white box switching actually means freedom from vendor lock-in (probably not), the rise of 25Gig switching, the lack of vendor liability for product defects, the end of outsourcing, and more.
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Talking about vendor lock-in, I think we need to differentiate between hardware lock-in and software.
For example: if you want to run domain controller, you are locked in to Windows machine. You don’t really have an option to run it on Linux. However, if your machine running domain controller dies, you can take a machine that used to run Linux with web server and install Windows with AD on it.
So, as we have more and more NOS on the market, some may be more useful for data center, some for campus, some for WAN. And if it goes as x86, if your switch in data center dies, you would be able to take a switch from campus network, install different NOS on it and use it in the data center (of course if you have right ports, etc).