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Today, Pica8 announced support for Table Type Patterns (TTP) in PicOS, our leading SDN operating system. The premise of this announcement is that with TTP, network engineers and operators can now implement SDN at greater scale – in some cases, up to two million flows (a 1,000x increase from previous methodologies) – while still using standard, white box hardware.
The magic of the technology is how PicOS can seamlessly leverage the capabilities of different switch ASICs. This empowers users with greater choice, and enables them to take advantage of unique capabilities of the ASIC they choose – such as memory space, programmable pipelines, and table management.
In terms of how we achieve greater flow scale with TTP, it’s similar to what I wrote about OpenFlow scale last year: all tables within the ASIC (VLAN, MAC, IP, TCAM, etc) are exposed and can be programmed via OpenFlow. But what’s more interesting is how we are seeing customers put this functionality to use.
Example 1: Cloud Brokering
For ISPs, automation and self-service portals are nirvana for the reduction in OpEx alone. If a customer wants to increase their bandwidth from 10Mbps to 100Gbps, but only wants to do it from Continue reading