Take a Network Break! Cisco announced that it would allow third-party OSs to run on Nexus 9200 and 9300 switches, and let customers run NX-OS on other hardware. The company is also making its IOS-XR router OS available for “curated” third-party hardware.
AT&T announces a plan to deploy 60,000 whitebox routers as part of its 5G rollout, and its dNOS open network OS moves to the Linux Foundation. Juniper’s OpenContrail also joins the Linux Foundation and gets renamed Tungsten Fabric.
The P4 network programming language becomes an official project of the Open Networking Foundation, HPE buys Cape Networks for WLAN performance monitoring, Microsoft reorganizes the company, and Arista announces new 25 and 100GbE switches.
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An Architectural Approach to Flexible Consumption for Service Providers with IOS XR – Cisco
Enabling IOS-XR on Third-Party Network Hardware IOS XR Cloud Scale Networking @xrdocs – GitHub
New Portability Options for Cisco s Data Center Networking Software and Hardware – Cisco
Yes Cisco IOS XR Is Disaggregated! – Cisco
AT&T Deploying White Box Hardware in Cell Towers to Power Mobile 5G Era – ATT
ATT to deploy 60,000 white box routers – Network Builder Reports
Network AI: ATT s Framework for Its Open Source Efforts That Will Drive our Software-Defined Network in 2018 and Beyond – AT&T
OpenContrail is Now Tungsten Fabric, Completes Move to The Linux Foundation – The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation Hosts DANOS Project, a Unified Network Operating System – The Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation Announces Further Harmonization Efforts, Celebrates New Members and Project Deployments – The Linux Foundation
Network Harmonization 2.0: Evolving Linux Foundation Networking – The Linux Foundation
P4 Gains Broad Networking Industry Adoption, Joins Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and Linux Foundation (LF) to Accelerate Next Phase of Growth and Innovation – Open Networking Foundation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise To Buy Privately-held Cape Networks – Markets Insider
Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge – Microsoft
Arista Introduces New Platforms for Cloud and Enterprise Customers – Arista