Open Source Open Compute Project Based Switches Growing Fast | Linux Today

Open Source Open Compute Project Based Switches Growing Fast

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Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 24, 2019

Driving the bare-metal swtich market forward are Open Compute Project certified switches. According to IHS markit, OCP certified switches had a 55 percent share of bare metal data center switch port revenue, at $221 million. That’s a dramatic gain from the second quarter of 2018 when the share was reported at 34 percent.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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