“The OSR8000 is the First High Performance Enterprise Routing
Switch to Integrate the Linux Operating System.”
“NBase-Xyplex … today announced the first high performance
enterprise switch router to integrate the Linux Operating
System.”
“The OSR8000 is a Linux switch router in an 18-slot chassis with
a 40-Gigabit per second routing fabric, frame and cell scheduling
and high speed ASICs, supporting up to 26 million packets per
second of throughput. High performance has been integrated with the
“Open” architecture of Linux to create a seamless, high performance
enterprise switch routing package for enterprise and service
provider networks.”