How Much Progress Has The Open Compute Project Made On Networking Hardware?

Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook and chairman and president of the Open Compute Project, touted the progress made thus far by the Facebook-launched data-storage initiative on the networking-hardware front in a post on the Open Compute Project blog.

Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook and chairman and president of the Open Compute Project, touted the progress made thus far by the Facebook-launched data-storage initiative on the networking-hardware front in a post on the Open Compute Project blog.

Frankovsky highlighted contributions from:

  • Broadcom, which developed a full specification for and implementation of an open switch.
  • Cumulus Networks, which proposed to contribute its Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) software to the Open Compute Project.
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