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This seems like a good, if belated, move on HPs part. Ethernet switches have become trivial to build with off the shelf parts. If you open up the software then you can focus on things like build quality and reliability.
It sounds too good to me. How will they make money in the Ethernet switching sector?
As I stopped knowing anything about datacenters around 2001, can anyone tell me what a network operating system is? I am going to guess large high throughput switches and some degree of software defined networks that knock putting your printers on one C-network and your servers on another into a cock hat Apart from raw power, is there some way I can reconfigure my network without moving a cable that I previously coul…
It's just like the usual IOS or JunOS. It's just open source, thats the only new thing I suppose. This has nothing to do with SDN.
It provides open interfaces to interact with the switch through several means like OVSDB, REST API ... or CLI. OpenFlow is not supported yet although will be in near future.
Since it's open source, it also gives you the opportunity to run other agents in the switch control plane ... which is hardly possible with IOS or JunOS.
This seems like a good, if belated, move on HPs part. Ethernet switches have become trivial to build with off the shelf parts. If you open up the software then you can focus on things like build quality and reliability.
It sounds too good to me. How will they make money in the Ethernet switching sector?
Their Github organization is empty, but you can see the code at: http://git.openswitch.net/cgit .
Github mirroring will be set up in about week.
Gonna be hard to compete with the likes of Cisco Nexus... I mean after almost 5 years of the Nexus 1000V platform they come to the table with an "open-source" software platform to be used on hardware that no one is currently using? I could see this getting traction if they announced it was compatible with some of the newer switches
And honestly, I really don't know how Cisco's Nexus line is going to survive at all. They will coast for a while on the population of Cisco certified engineers that don't want to learn new things, but it is literally cheaper for us to buy new hardware and support contracts than it is to renew our Cisco support contract. And the alternatives are far more capable than NX-OS for our ops people.
The Nexus line is effectively dead, as I see it.
This seems like a good, if belated, move on HPs part. Ethernet switches have become trivial to build with off the shelf parts. If you open up the software then you can focus on things like build quality and reliability.
It sounds too good to me. How will they make money in the Ethernet switching sector?
The hardware compatibility list is pretty slim at the moment: http://www.openswitch.net/documents/user/hardware-compatibil...
The hardware compatibility list is pretty slim at the moment: http://www.openswitch.net/documents/user/hardware-compatibil...
The release today is about opening it up for the community participation. Making sure we release it early and not overbaked. So the community can shape the direction. We wanted to have one real HW platform that would be fully functional + Docker container image, which is being heavily used in the development and CIT. Other Broadcom Trident II/Tomahawk based platforms would be quite easy to support. For other ASICs, w…
I could see us switching from Cumulus Linux to Open Switch, with that hardware support, and if Open Switch stays open source. We'd likely even pay for support, if cost competitive.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds too good to me. How will they make money in the Ethernet switching sector?
the higher-end switches take considerable engineering, just on the hardware side, and are fairly high-margin products. If the networking equipment space becomes OS agnostic, or consolidates around OpenSwitch, this removes one of Cisco's major advantages (their huge installed-base, network OS dominance, customer switching costs), and allows HP (and others) to compete directly on network equipment hardware architecture…
This hasn't been true for a couple years now, at least for top-of-rack and spine switches. White-box switches are now accessible to the general public, have low margins, and are not limited to huge purchasers like Facebook and Amazon.