Another top-of-rack switch, based on open source code, is being offered for data center and cloud computing environments.
Pica8, a mysterious company “committed to providing open source solutions of L2/L3 switch software” is pushing 48-port Gigabit Ethernet and 10G Ethernet switches with open source software and at half the price of comparable products from Force10 and Arista Networks. The company says that combining its open source software with off-the-shelf ASICs from companies like Broadcom, Fulcrum and Marvell on switches from “white-box vendors” like Pronto Systems, achieves a tenfold increase in price performance over “legacy embedded switches.” (Keep Reading....)
This is a great article, but it's literally been cut and paste from a snippet or RSS clip of the original, which I believe was posted on Associated Content as it has been bought and sold as well as posted on several blogs in the whole all over the internet.
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