OpenSwitch is undergoing a reboot, as the open source switching-software project, which originated at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), appears poised to use code submitted by SnapRoute and by the Dell EMC portion of Dell.
HPE remains a member of OpenSwitch, but today’s announcement signals a new direction for the project. Dell has contributed a base operating system, while SnapRoute is providing routing and switching stacks. HPE founded OpenSwitch but handed off the project to the Linux Foundation in June. At the time, HPE said the move was a way to show the community that this wouldn’t be an effort controlled by one vendor.
OpenSwitch is an effort to develop an open source software stack for network switches. It’s a rival to the open source operating systems offered by the likes of Cumulus and Pica8.
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