charlesnw
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
It's got USB/ethernet/arm cpu , and has been incorporated into numerous other projects. It's ~$100.00 USD.
I for one support the uncovering attempts. I'm attempting to do that myself on all the stories as well.
A wide range of expertise with the ability to rapidly deep dive wherever needed is what I consider a rockstar.
I 100% agree with the don't ask for help advice. People need to ACTUALLY LEARN something. I'm sick of people externalizing the costs of their inadequacies.
As someone who runs a 6509 (almost fully populated with line cards and specialized controllers) as my HOME core switch (with a second one on the way for full redundancy), an open modular switch is very cool.
(I'm currently hacking on OpenFlow -> NETCONF bridging, to bring typical SDN capabilities to legacy Cisco environments). Hence my rather..... extensive home network.
This is very similar to what Cisco is doing with Nexus and the "fabric extender" TOR replacement kit. I'll have to see if Facebook has any of this stuff in GIT and stand it up in a VM environment and play with it (I already do a bunch of OpenFlow stuff on OpenWRT and am looking at implementing an open southbound API on FPGA on the parallela board).
http://www.ubnt.com/accessories/toughswitch/
and
http://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching-routing/unifi-switch/
That's exactly what you are looking for. SOHO friendly (fanless, cheap, supports vlans).
Will I be able to "burst" from on premise into Azure in this model? I'm in the process of deploying cloudstack/Ubuntu MAAS now for my on premise (and generally longer duration deployment) needs and using Azure for when I need rapid setup/teardown or a large amount of capacity (on demand).
If I could have one stack locally and in "the cloud", I would be VERY happy (especially if it's all tied in with AD, federated etc).