Since Performant is dead can you make something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3XB2Ym7T4
Maybe you can even build this into your existing switches.
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Ring Topology like RFLO
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
Give us a little time there, that is a pretty big undertaking!
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
I'll give you four weeks. You can do it!
Heck, you could probably just hire the Performant guy who wrote that software.
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Heck, you could probably just hire the Performant guy who wrote that software.
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
LOL I do not think so.
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
The Performant leadership and FPGA coders were just Accedian employees sub-tasked to Performant. They still all work for Accedian except for ~4 other employees who got hired on to fill out the team (myself as the public/technical figurehead, Brent Schnell as the channel manager from Moto/Cambium, and two web/marketing people). They're all located at the Montreal, Quebec/CA office in the building shared by Ciena, Bombradier, and others 
I think the original tech that RFLO was built on was "wack". Requiring you to just have a ring topology, and only a ring topology, is pretty dumb. If it were originally based on SPB or TRILL, things would have been much different. Anywho, to do the kinds of things they did, it requires expensive FPGA designs at every end-point, and it's a patented meathod. I've thought about it from a few different angles, and can't figure out a way to make the measurements as accurate as they need to be with sub-microsecond latencies and still keep it cheap.
It was a genius idea though.
I think the original tech that RFLO was built on was "wack". Requiring you to just have a ring topology, and only a ring topology, is pretty dumb. If it were originally based on SPB or TRILL, things would have been much different. Anywho, to do the kinds of things they did, it requires expensive FPGA designs at every end-point, and it's a patented meathod. I've thought about it from a few different angles, and can't figure out a way to make the measurements as accurate as they need to be with sub-microsecond latencies and still keep it cheap.
It was a genius idea though.
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
rebelwireless wrote:4 weeks is plenty of time ;)
No pressure right guys!
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
Why not use Shortest Path Bridging? Even performant only worked in a ring configuration.
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Re: Ring Topology like RFLO
I proposed an RFLOv2 to the company to better compete in the WISP space instead of the cell/carrier/metro-e market they were used to, and my idea got shut down pretty fast. They didn't see the importance of a "mesh" design.
And now, they're gone.
And now, they're gone.
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