Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan

Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan by jdmitch on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:32PM (#6496336)

We want to shoot for all of the things we want in open switches, but you can’t boil the ocean. We want hardware disaggregated from software, and we want to deploy that hardware in production.

I can't decide if this sounds a bit defeatist or is just pragmatic - isn't the goal lofty enough to require the ambition to boil the ocean?

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Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan by bitops on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:39PM (#6496757)

Not really - look at Nicira, which was bought by VMware for a cool $1B. There's a lot of innovative work happening in the network virtualization space at the moment.

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Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan by pkj on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:01PM (#6497254)

Sure, we are trying through global warming :)

On a serious note, take a look at cumulus networks[1] who claim to solve the hw/sw disaggregation problem. They have a linux OS distro which can run on h/w of multiple vendors ( not the popular ones like cisco/jnpr/hp/brcd etc.. since those are closed platforms).

[1] http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/

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Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan by devicenull on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:25PM (#6497392)

I so wish that pricing was available for any of their supported hardware :/

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Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan by wmf on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:34PM (#6497433)

See http://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/showsearchresults.asp?I...

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