Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP (theregister.com)

by jonbaer 18 comments 87 points
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[−] 4ggr0 59d ago
One day some cool new IT tech will come out of Switzerland without it being an ETH Zürich thing. Not saying that that's a bad thing but it's almost comical how one can read such headlines, think "that's probably coming out of ETHZ" and be correct most times. I guess a lot of american IT comes out of MIT, Switzerland is way smaller so it makes sense that there's an even larger bias towards one institute.

Wonder how wide SCION will spread, so far it sounds like it's being used by the Swiss Financial Sector (ugh, even more stereotypical now).

[−] alopha 59d ago
There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
[−] ivell 59d ago
Scala for one.
[−] alex_suzuki 59d ago
It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.
[−] ahartmetz 59d ago
Eh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.
[−] nwellnhof 59d ago
Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.
[−] 112233 59d ago
Nice to see BGP getting called out. Meanwhile, the fact neither quagga nor frr nor bird SCION patches are available by googling 5 seconds — and they want "company like cisco"?
[−] ThePowerOfFuet 59d ago
It sounds great. I wish him the best of luck rolling it out!
[−] lovebite4u_ai 59d ago
sounds good
[−] Rager74 59d ago
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[−] jamesvza 59d ago
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[−] eqvinox 59d ago
No they didn't, they built an alternative to the Internet. It can't replace BGP on the existing internet.