If Facebook and its Open Compute buddies are successful, high-end, open-source network switches will soon be commonplace in datacenters. Image: Facebook As Frank Frankovsky, chairman of OCP, said: ...

Facebook is trying to redefine networking with a new open-source switch that functions pretty much like a server that more engineers can work with, while Cisco, Dell and other bigwigs try to catch up.

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook’s network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch. “It’s our hope that an open, disaggregated ...

Big Switch Networks is the latest industry player to showcase new-age networking wares based on integration with the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project. The Santa Clara, Calif., ...

Innovium, Inc., a provider of networking switch solutions for cloud and edge data centers, today announced Innovium TERACertified switch solutions that the company said delivers up to 2X or more TCO ...

When you can get a WiFi-enabled microcontroller for $3, it’s little surprise that many of the projects we see these days have ditched Ethernet. But the days of wired networking are far from o… ...

The switch company has ported its Force10 Operating System (FTOS) from Wind River’s VxWorks, a proprietary real-time operating system, to open source NetBSD, in an effort to make its switches ...

NOTE: SONiC is an open source network operating system based on Linux that runs on switches from multiple vendors and ASICs — it offers a full suite of network functionality, like BGP and RDMA ...

The open-source SONiC software will bring the same benefits of reduced total cost of ownership in networking as happened in white-box servers, Innovium claims.

White box switches and open-source Network Operating Systems (NOS) are transforming the networking landscape by offering greater flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This article ...

In the past, the common network strategy was to switch when you can and route when you must. ... Network Management – Open source and/or freemium tools that can add value with minimal investment.