Josh Saul

Josh Saul has pioneered open source network solutions for more than 25 years. As an architect, he built core networks for GE, Pfizer and NBC Universal. As an engineer at Cisco, Josh advised customers in the Fortune 100 financial sector and evangelized new technologies to customers. More recently, Josh led marketing and product teams at VMware (acquired by Broadcom), Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), and Apstra (acquired by Juniper). Josh lives in New York City with his two children and is an avid SCUBA diver.
Migrating from Cumulus to SONiC for Broadcom ASICs

Migrating from Cumulus to SONiC for Broadcom ASICs

As a lot of people already know, Cumulus Networks was acquired by Nvidia/Mellanox in 2020, which was very exciting for some, but something of a problem for the customers who had Broadcom ASIC-based switches. Now let’s be clear, Nvidia makes some of the most bad-ass...

The Benefits of Containerization in SONiC

The Benefits of Containerization in SONiC

If you're into network operating systems like me, then you'll know that the containerization architecture of SONiC is a huge step forward for delivering on higher levels of network uptime. In the past, most network operating systems were monolithic, which means they...

How to Select a SONiC Enterprise Support Provider

How to Select a SONiC Enterprise Support Provider

As hardcore IT engineers, we all love Open Source software.  But as network engineers and architects, we’ve previously had few opportunities to use open source in the network infrastructure itself, historically the network devices used proprietary Network Operating...

Thank You Cumulus!

Thank You Cumulus!

If you are reading this, you are probably in agreement that the Open Networking revolution is real!  I recently attended the OCP Global Summit and the Linux Foundation ONE Summit, and there was indeed electricity in the air.  The size of the community has...