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....@gmail.com> wrote: > SONiC > > https://azure.github.io/SONiC/ > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:09 AM Colton Conor <colton.co...@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? >> >> >>
