Part of the direction involves an effort known as Open Network Linux, which is a component of Switch Light and has now been donated to the Open Compute Platform (OCP) and its open networking effort.
“Open Network Linux takes a piece of what’s inside Switch Light, anything that you would normally need to leverage to bring up a switch,” Murray said.
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