Open networking and hardware/software disaggregation

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 7, 2017, 2:25 p.m. (60 minutes).

Open Networking or "Web scale networking" is the concept where you're no longer tied into a single vendor for a network solution. You're free to choose you're own hardware and software. #NetworkSecurity Open Networking or "Web scale networking" is the concept where you're no longer tied into a single vendor for a network solution. You're free to choose you're own hardware and software. Cumulus Networks has developed a Linux distribution that runs on switches in this concept. In the Open Networking world, Cumulus has contributed numerous patches and application to the Open source world. In this talk we'll look at these features, how modern datacenter networks are being built and how this all comes together. Features / Concepts like: - ONIE bootloader - Cumulus Linux - Free Range Routing - Automation - EVPN - VxLAN

Presenters:

  • Attilla de Groot
    Attilla de Groot has been working as a network engineer for the past 15 year with an interest in open software/technology. Now as an engineer at Cumulus Networks combining both.

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