Comment by duttish
4 days ago
They mentioned this on the podcast, the problem is that since they're development tools the networking stack is still scaled for a full rack with pretty beefy switches.
Either they need to support a whole second network stack with firmware etc which they don't want to do now, or a racklette would cost way too much and almost nobody would pay the price.
I court see a lot of small businesses wanting one. Or as an addon to their existing Colo setup.
Could also be great for DR sites and smaller remote offices. Power is a big factor in deployments and I can see a smaller little turnkey setup that uses less be very popular