White Box Switch Vendors

White box switch silicon vendors.

White box switch vendors.

The major vendors also charge a premium for their switches often twice as much as a comparable white box switch. With little switch silicon suppliers on global market silicon suppliers that can be selected by white box manufacturers are even lesser because the compatibility must be taken into consideration. Across the world the main silicon supplier is broadcom with the newly emerged cavium being flashed occasionally in. One of the promises of sdn technology is to detach the tentacles holding the hardware and software together and make the network equipment more open for innovation.

Most white box switches employ an open linux based nos that is intended to be disaggregated or abstracted from the underlying network hardware similar to how virtual servers disaggregate the server os from the underlying. Most onug it business leaders view the white box market merchant silicon running open switch os as highly fragmented and unorganized and thus high risk. But most of these barriers of entry can be overcome if this ecosystem of vendors would organize to show and demonstrate to the large enterprise market what they have to offer. Ip infusion has historically sold to networking vendors but now offers its ocnos product to white box users.