http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/12/01/amazon-vp-network-gear-economy-becoming-commoditized/
no single vendor of vertically-integrated network gear is capable of responding to architecture-centered network problems within a timeframe any narrower than six months.
no single vendor of vertically-integrated network gear is capable of responding to architecture-centered network problems within a timeframe any narrower than six months.
“Vertically-integrated networking equipment, where the ASICs, the hardware, these protocol stacks [were] supplied by single companies, is [like] the way the mainframe used to dominate servers,” said Hamilton.
“If you look at where the networking world is, it’s sort of where the server world was 20 or 30 years ago. It started out with, you buy a mainframe. . . and that’s it. And it comes from all one company. The networking world is the same place. And we know what happened in the server world: As soon as you chop up these vertical stacks, you’ve got companies focused on every layer, and they’re innovating together, and they’re all competing. You can get great things happening.”
In certain facets of Amazon’s network, standards are absolutely not required at all.
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