Big Switch’s Big Cloud Fabric Now Integrates with VMware NSX
Big Switch expands its reach to include VMware.
Big Switch Releases Big Tap 4.5 With a Focus on Security
Big Tap 4.5, a next-generation network packet broker, is bringing security to Big Switch's monitoring.
Big Switch Networks & Cyphort Use SDN to Deliver Advanced Threat Detection
Big Switch Networks and Cyphort have just announced a new partnership that will bring a SDN defense product to market by combining Big Tap and Advanced Threat Defense Platform.
Show 232 – Big Switch Networks on the State of Open Networking – Sponsored
Rob Sherwood, CTO, Big Switch Networks, discusses the state of open networking with Ethan and Greg. We cover trends in hyper scale networking, the state of SDN's evolution, hardware/software disaggregation, and integrating SDN underlays & overlays. For example, we discuss how Big Cloud Fabric ties into VMware.
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SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — April 3, 2015
Did you miss out on all the SDx news this week? Never fear, we're here to tell you what new market research says, and why Meru is saying "Adios, Aruba."
News Analysis: Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 Released
Big Switch Networks has released version 2.5 of their Big Cloud Fabric SDN offering. Read the full press release here. What’s Big Cloud Fabric? BCF is an SDN-based IP fabric where you manage all of the individual switches as one “big switch.” In other words, you manage the fabric as a whole, and not individual switches. Big […]Vendor Whitebox Switches – Better Together?
Whitebox switching has moved past the realm of original device manufacturers and has been taken up by traditional networking vendors. Andre Kindness (@AndreKindness) of Forrester recently posted that he fields several calls from his customers every day asking about a particular vendor’s approach to whitebox switching. But what do these vendor offerings look like? And can we predict how a given vendor will address the whitebox market?
Chocolate In My Peanut Butter
Dell was one of the first traditional networking vendors to announce a whitebox switch offering that decoupled the operating system from the switching hardware. Dell offered packages from Cumulus Linux and Big Switch Networks alongside their PowerConnect lineup. This makes sense when you consider that the operating system on the switch has never been the strong suit of Dell. The PowerConnect OS is not very popular with network engineers, being very dissimilar from more popular CLIs such as Cisco IOS and its look-alikes. Their attempts to capitalize on the popularity of Force Ten OS (FTOS) and adapt it or use on PowerConnect switches has been difficult at best, due to the divide been hardware architecture of the two platforms.
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