Networking giant Cisco Systems is no stranger to the world of open source software. In 2009, Cisco was identified as one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and its core IOS XE operating is based on Linux as well.
As it turns out though, it has only been in this past week, that Cisco made its’ largest open source contribution ever.
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