Heavy Networking 536: Arrcus Reimagines The Chassis Router With Its Virtualized Distributed Router (Sponsored)

Today’s Heavy Networking podcast, sponsored by Arrcus Networks, explores Arrcus’s recently launched Virtualized Distributed Router (VDR). It’s clear that building Ethernet networks with 1RU switches is a cost-effective and open design, particulary when compared with expensive and complicated chassis hardware.
But the question becomes, how do we scale? The use of ECMP network architectures is identical to the chassis architecture internally. If we treat each switch as a line card and synchronize the operational state among switches, we can treat an ECMP network as a single logical entity.
Enter Arrcus’s Virtualized Distributed Router (VDR):

Arrcus’s VDR is software that runs on your preferred whitebox platform, with support for a variety of ASICs. The control plane unifies an ECMP fabric to turn thousands of ports into a single logical unit. It’s the chassis to use when you don’t want a chassis.
In today’s show, we dive into details about VDR with Arrcus guests Keyur Patel, CTO; Murali Gandluru, VP, Product Management and Marketing;  and Nalin Pai, Technical Staff.
We discuss:

* The need for a virtualized distributed router and how it works
* Scaling the data center with VDR
* What day-to-day operations look like
* Available whitebox and ASIC support
* More

Show Links:
Arrcus
Arrcus Virtualized Distributed Router (VDR)
Arrcus on Twitter: @arrcusinc
Blogs by Keyur Patel – Arrcus
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