Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers
Alibaba Cloud has revealed the hardware design it uses to run networking at its edge locations, and those devices’ reliance on Intel Tofino ASICs.
"In LuoShen, the 64×100G ports of Tofino are split into different purposes," the paper states."Some ports directly connect to servers to receive VM traffic, some ports connect to BSW for internet access and cross-region communication, some ports connect to on-premise IDCs , and some ports connect to the CPU and FPGA for fallback and stateful traffic processing."
Tofino's programmability is therefore key as it means Alibaba has been able to customize the ASICs to implement its network functions and the requirements of packing them into an edge device.
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