Big Switch Demo Network Operating Systems Built on Open Hardware

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Big Switch Demo Network Operating Systems Built on Open Hardware
, and Big Switch Networks at this week's Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit will demonstrate three approaches to network operating systems
all built with Open Network Linux (ONL) and all running on OCP switch
hardware.Facebook and Google
ONL is a Linux distribution for bare metal switches.Network Switches It's one of OCP's several open hardware projects and is available on 68
different hardware platforms.It's the single largest open source
project in OCP with contributions from more than 30 different
organizations, said to Kyle Forster, founder of Big Switch Networks.
ONL is increasingly becoming the de facto standard for switch hardware platform-level code, Forster wrote in an email to SDxCentral.
With this demo, it is now public that it is getting used in Facebook's
FBOSS and Google's Stratum projects, the largest end-user open source
network projects in the industry.Tomorrow, at the annual OCP Summit in
SanJose and California, teams from all three companies will demo
Google's network operating system (NOS) supporting P4 Runtime,
Facebook's FBOSS-based NOS, and Big Switch's BGP-based concept NOS. All
three can perform Layer-3 networking, according to Big Switch.
Specifically, the Google demo shows this with centralized software-defined networking (SDN) controllers and P4 programming; the
Facebook demo shows this with the Thrift protocol; and the Big Switch
demo shows this with an industry-standard BGP protocol.The demonstration
uses modular, interchangeable software and hardware components. It
shows how hyperscale data center operators and networking vendors are
moving up the stack, and increasingly opening up hardware and operating
systems components code at the bottom of the stack, Forster said.
Open/R from Facebook is explicitly built for extensibility so advanced networking logic can be integrated in to their overall data
center automation systems, he said. The P4 controller approach from
Google follows the same logic. Big Switch has been doing this with its
commercial products for enterprise users, and now showing a
Linux/BGP-centric approach for the at-scale community who look for
Linux-style management to integrate with their own
Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt and custom approaches for networking
integration.

Posted 22 Feb 2019

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