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The growing ecosystem around open networking hardware
- epistasis 10y agoI can't speak highly enough about the move away from traditional networking vendors to whitebox hardware running a linux-based OS with proprietary bits that interface with the hardware. It's worked very well from where we started (just two racks years ago), and gives us a very clear path to scale to hundreds of racks. It's given us far more control over our racks, empowered us to do all sorts of cool things that you'd never be able to really try on the enterprisey traditional network hardware. And it's cheaper; rather than renew support for enterprise network gear it's frequently cheaper to buy all new hardware and Cumulus licenses (our preferred software shop).
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