Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 20, 2013 @12:13PM from the it-even-runs-on-computers dept.

jrepin writes "Everywhere you look, change is afoot in computer networking. As data centers grow in size and complexity, traditional tools are proving too slow or too cumbersome to handle that expansion. Dinesh Dutt is Chief Scientist at Cumulus Networks. Cumulus has been working to change the way we think about networks altogether by dispensing with the usual software/hardware lockstep, and instead using Linux as the operating system on network hardware. In this week's New Tech Forum, Dinesh details the reasons and the means by which we may see Linux take over yet another aspect of computing: the network itself."

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Re:Cisco isn't going anywhere, yet by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-20 12:49 · Score: 5, Informative

Cisco is already there...
The heart of most of the "new" os's that Cisco is using is a modified linux kernel... I.E. NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, CGR... Almost all the security platforms, ASA, ISE... etc...