New OpenSwitch Developers Community Accelerates Data Center Networking With a Consistent, Modern Open Source Network OS - Seite 2

"Network disaggregation ranks as one of the most disruptive developments in networking, even more disruptive, in many respects, than software defined networking," said Brad Casemore, research director, Datacenter Networks, IDC. "By decoupling the underlying switch hardware from the network operating systems that run on it, HP and the other early contributors of the OpenSwitch Community are seeking to enable enterprises and large web-scale companies to rapidly innovate and engineer purpose-build data centers without the constraint of vendor lock-in."

As part of the Open Switch Community, developers and users will build upon the newly released NOS, which includes the following:

• A fully featured NOS with L2/L3 protocols support
• Open source cloud database for persistent and ephemeral configuration
• All inter-module communication is through system database
• Universal API approach: CLI, REST, Puppet/Chef, Ansible

Early Supporters for the OpenSwitch Community
"As one of the largest proponents of open networking through community led projects such as Open vSwitch, VMware is excited to see new and meaningful open source advancements in the networking space," said Guido Appenzeller, Chief technology Strategy Officer, Networking and Security Business Unit, VMware. "More and more, we see customers looking for flexibility and openness in their networking environments as a means to operate and innovate at a much faster rate."

"Broadcom is excited to contribute and enhance support for its OpenNSL and BroadView™ instrumentation software to the OpenSwitch project to enable deployments over industry leading Broadcom® Tomahawk™ and Trident II switches," said Ram Velaga, Broadcom Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Switch.

"Arista has always embraced merchant silicon and open standards-based networking," said Jeff Raymond, vice president, EOS Product Management and Services, Arista. "We believe the future integration of DevOps and NetOps requires a best-of-breed ecosystem across the cloud stack. We welcome the OpenSwitch initiative as another example of disrupting the legacy models."

"As a leading provider of open network switches, we understand that enterprises, telecoms and cloud providers with web-scale infrastructures want greater automation and control over their networks through the use of open software platforms," said George Tchaparian, GM of Data Center Networks, Accton Technology Corporation. "The new network operating system and supporting community will empower customers with this level of control, while significantly reducing network total cost of ownership."