Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

Are either of you using SONiC in production? Seems to be well backed, and
have good feature support.



On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:42 PM Tim Jackson <jackson.tim () gmail com> wrote:

> SONiC
>
> https://azure.github.io/SONiC/
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:09 AM Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run
> > on whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches?
> >
> > I know Cumulus is very popular, but I don't believe they have a free
> > version that runs on whitebox switches right? Only on a virtual machine
> > from what I can tell.
> >
> > I think if one of these vendors would release a free and truly opensource
> > network operating system, with the option for paid support if needed, then
> > whitebox switching would really take off. This would be similar to the
> > Redhat model, but for the networking world.
> >
> > Right now, the cost of the whitebox plus a paid network operating system
> > seems to equal the same cost as a discounted Juniper, Cisco, or Arista. I
> > am not seeing the savings on paper.
> >
> > If we could just buy the whitebox hardware, and have a free operating
> > system on there, then financially whitebox switches would be half the cost
> > of a similar Cisco switch after discount.
> >
> > Am I missing something?