Universal Customer Premise ( UCP ) equipment . We ’ re working on specs for a small portfolio of products .”
Assessing trends in the data centre industry , Cartner notes , on the networking side , most solutions are built with commodity silicon , which is now being used in all devices , branded or white box solutions . As a result , the tech is available to the consumer regardless of purchase option , so there are no disadvantages by choice . “ Companies such as Cumulus Networks and Barefoot have emerged to provide solutions ,” he adds . “ They are taking open source hardware and qualifying an open source Linux-based network OS on top of it and building the data plate , control and orchestration software on top of that . You really can get a turnkey solution as the barriers to adoption are dissolving . Case in point , Edgecore is a white box provider , and significant contributor to tech at OCP , that recently announced a 400gb switch – one of the first available in the market .” One of the OCP ’ s biggest successes to date has been in the field of rack architecture . “ We have an
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