Whitebox Switches
Whitebox switches represent a new category of switches that were brought to mass market by the SDN movement. They represent a class of switches that typically made by vendors who made network hardware as outsourcers for the typical commercial vendors such as Cisco. Since the SDN movement allows network engineers to only care about 'raw' forwarding plane, the whitebox switch vendors can now sell directly to the network engineers. They are just blank switches upon which you can load separate software for them to operate on. The hardware vendors include Accton, Celestica, and Quanta, amongst others. The software you can load on the switch varies from just an agent interacting with controller, such as Big Switch Networks Switch ...
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