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100G HW at a cost of 40G.
The price for Aurora 720 100G bare metal switch was aligned to match 40G counterparts – $7000. Also, 100G optics from Optech was added to our catalog. Quite expensive so far but it’s not in a real volume production yet. Cost-effective 10G optics from Optech added – high-quality Taiwan-made product.
An open source NOS from Microsoft.
called Software for Open Networking in the Cloud or SONiC. SONiC is a collection of networking software components required to have a fully functional L3 device that can be agnostic of any particular Linux distribution. Today SONiC runs on Debian and available on Github. No support from Microsoft,
ICOS release for the Aurora 720 switch.
ICOS release for the Aurora 720 switch. The Aurora 720 switch is available with ICOS NOS for the deployment. What is ICOS? Official introduction – ICOS is a fully hardened networking OS specifically designed to run on Broadcom® StrataXGS switching silicon for datacenter applications, including spine/leaf deployments. ICOS supports traditional management
Cumulus went to perpetual license model
Why? Align with industry standard – all OS’ sold this way. NOS is integral to the switch – customers expect to own it Reduce procurement/sales barrier – make things frictionless The difference: Background: Match customer expectations Competitive: Maintain price competitiveness (C-Index) Software to Hardware Ratio: Reasonable The portfolio is divided
Large December update
Hi all, We are finalizing the business transition to Netberg, which acquire all operations recently and have multiple updates to share: 1. 100G part. Major update so far – cost-effective 100G Aurora 720 switch, very close to 40G box price point and we expect it to be on par very
Cumulus Linux promotion.
12% off on all Cumulus Linux subscriptions till December 31 of 2015! Enjoy 🙂
Cumulus Linux license delivery explained
The most common question about Cumulus Linux license delivery is the schedule. Is it possible to deliver immediate, or next business day or whatever? Can we forward it without delays? This is how the process looks like: 1. Cumulus Linux license belongs to the particular customer. 2. To issue
Cumulus VX – how to test open networking approach at no cost.
Beside remote access to the lab, there is a new way to evaluate open networking world – Cumulus VX. Now you can dive into the world of open networking, experiment and design deployment scenarios without hurting time to production and develop new applications without real hardware on site. What is
Free shipping for 10G and above.
Long story short – all 10G and above switches are now subjects of free world-wide delivery in case of wire payment.