Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents. February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter.
The ubiquity and compatibility of X86 machinery has in many ways radically simplified the infrastructure of computing and reduced the market to a few handfuls of server suppliers and Linux or Windows being the operating system of choice for the vast majority of workloads. If some major hyperscale datacenter operators and networking upstarts have their way, it will not be too long before we talk about industry-standard networking hardware, with common hardware and only a few network operating systems – very likely open source and therefore malleable by vendors and customers alike. Open For Business There is a lot of money at stake here as end user companies make the inevitable shift from closed, appliance-style switching to open networking. Ubiquiti Networks - EdgeRouter™ PRO. Cumulus Linux Hardware Compatibility List. Cumulus Networks certifies Cumulus Linux operation for all products on the Hardware Compatibility List, HCL.
Cumulus Networks supports all products on the HCL, which may include RMA support for hardware under warranty. All platforms on the HCL must come with ONIE, the open install environment for bare metal network switches. See support policy for more details. The HCL table provides the manufacturer, model number, description, and the associated supported Cumulus Linux release number. Open Network Install Environment. Mellanox Technologies: End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Interconnect Solutions and Services. QuantaMesh BMS T3048-LY2R. QuantaMesh 3000 Series BMS T3048-LY2R A Powerful Top-of-Rack Switch for Datacenter and Cloud Computing Datacenter networks are facing a major paradigm shift toward the disaggregation of software and hardware.
This move, combined with the bene ts of software-de ned networking (SDN) allows network administrators respond quickly to changing business requirements at a lower capital cost as well as reducing the network operations complexity. QuantaMesh BMS products o er higher performance, increased availability, low latency and better serviceability. QuantaMesh T3048-LY2R supports 48 SFP+ (1/10GbE speed) and 4 QSFP+ (10/40GbE speed) ports in a compact 1U size. About Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) provides advanced hardware systems to cloud datacenters worldwide. QCT's parent is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 company with more than 100,000 employees located at engineering, manufacturing and services facilities worldwide.
Supported Switch OS Resources. Arctica 4806xp - 48 Port 10GbE Network Switch - Penguin Computing. Open source hardware. Open vSwitch. Networking. Project Chairs: Omar Baldonado | Carlos Cardenas The Open Compute Networking Project is creating a set of technologies that are disaggregated and fully open, allowing for rapid innovation in the network space.
We aim to facilitate the development of network hardware and software – together with trusted project validation and testing – in a truly open and collaborative community environment. We’re bringing to networking the guiding principles that OCP has brought to servers & storage, so that we can give end users the ability to forgo traditional closed and proprietary network switches - in favor of a fully open network technology stack. Our initial goal is to develop a top-of-rack (leaf) switch, while future plans target spine switches and other hardware and software solutions in the space. Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network. We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient.
This approach has guided Facebook from the beginning, as we’ve grown and expanded our infrastructure to connect more than 1.28 billion people around the world. Over the last three years, we’ve been working within the Open Compute Project (OCP) to apply this principle to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards. And last year, OCP kicked off a new networking project with a goal of developing designs for OS-agnostic top-of-rack (TOR) switches. Today we’re pleased to unveil the next step: a new top-of-rack network switch, code-named “Wedge,” and a new Linux-based operating system for that switch, code-named “FBOSS.” The hardware: more powerful and more modular Why does this matter?
The software: greater accessibility and better control What’s next? Open Networks for Software-Defined Networking. Switch selector tool.