Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

[colton.conor at gmail.com (Colton Conor)]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> SONiC
>
> https://azure.github.io/SONiC/
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:09 AM Colton Conor <colton.conor at 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?
>>
>>
>>
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