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White Boxes and Cultural Lock-in

February 20, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

White Boxes and Cultural Lock-in

Gian Paolo Boarina and Nicola Arnoldi have an interesting exchange going on the role of white box networking in the enterprise and the exodus of intelligence from organizations to vendors.

Filed Under: Favorites Tagged With: @GP_ifconfig, @IOSHints, @Nicola_Arnoldi, white box switching

Whitebox World – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

January 30, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

Whitebox World – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
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In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth leads the roundtable in discussing the role of whitebox switching in enterprise networking.

Filed Under: On-Premise IT Podcast Tagged With: white box switching, Whitebox Switching

Getting to Know IP Infusion

January 10, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino 1 Comment

Getting to Know IP Infusion

Never heard of IP Infusion? You’re not alone. The company was founded by the team behind GNU Zebra, and has commercialized it under ZebOS since 1999. They’ve recently moved from purely an OEM company into providing white box switch and virtualized network operating systems. It’s an interesting move into some of the more exciting areas in enterprise IT.

Filed Under: Exclusive, Featured, Tech Field Day Tagged With: @IPInfusion, GNU Zebra, OcNOS, VirOS, white box switching, ZebOS

Are Vendors and VARs The Enemy?

November 15, 2017 by Tom Hollingsworth 8 Comments

Are Vendors and VARs The Enemy?

Are VARs trying to fleece you for every cent? Are software releases really slow and full of bugs? Should you just scrap your entire infrastructure and go open source with an army of newly-minted network software developers? Tom Hollingsworth gives us some points to think about while we’re preparing for the revolution.

Filed Under: Exclusive, Featured Tagged With: #FutureNet, @NetworkingNerd, EA, open source, Peyton Koran, VMworld, white box switching

White Box Switching: Goodbye Trident II, Hello Cavium XPliant

September 23, 2014 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

David Gee of ipengineer.net comments: Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) that produce incumbent profit busting white box switching technology could soon be releasing the next wave of programmable networking based on technology from a silicon company best known for it’s encryption products. Cavium have released the XPliant chipset which it acquired from a $90m purchase earlier […]

Filed Under: All, Favorites Tagged With: @LSP42, white box switching

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