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...
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...
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...
Kubernetes Eats Network

Kubernetes Eats Network

Kubernetes eats infrastructure Kubernetes is one of the most critical platform transitions in the history of computing. Kubernetes is how we deploy, schedule, and operate distributed cloud-native applications. The platform is quickly becoming the de-facto way modern...