Cavium Pledges Support of OpenSwitch

Cavium, a provider of semiconductor products for networking, has stated support for the OpenSwitch open source network operating system on its XPliant switches. The company has also introduced Open APIs (application programming interfaces) for its XPliant Programmable (OpenXPS) open source software.

OpenSwitch is an open source, community–led Linux-based network operating system, launched by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other industry leaders in October 2015 for the scale and architecture requirements of modern next–generation data center networks. It enables a developer ecosystem with the ability to accelerate innovation and realize investment protection, allowing IT organizations to rapidly build data center networks customized for unique business applications, a company press release states.

“We are very pleased to see Cavium continuing to grow the collaborative community with OpenXPS,” said Mark Atwood, community director, OpenSwitch. “The XPliant–based switching solutions expand the OpenSwitch ecosystem and help address the rapidly evolving needs of the open networking industry. Network switches based on OpenSwitch allow IT staff better control of their infrastructure through disaggregation, the freedom of avoiding vendor lock–in, faster time to service and lower overall ownership costs compared to traditional solutions.”

For more information, visit Cavium and OpenSwitch.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.