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Facebook Wedges 6-pack Switch into SDN Market

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 13, 2015

Facebook isn’t likely making many new friends among the big established networking vendors with its announcement this week of the new 6-pack open hardware modular switch. The new 6-pack modular switch builds on Facebook’s existing top-of-rack Wedge switch and its Linux-based network operating system FBOSS.

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