Network Disaggregation & White Box switching are one of those Talk of the Town things for quite some time. There are lot of startups in this space or niche players is one of those over hyped marketing terms to address that segment of OEMs besides other ones such as SDN, IBN & Cloud.
At surface they seem to bring couple of new factors into the equation which at first sounds very innovative such as:
Your Networking Hardware should be treated as Commodity similar to Server market. So idea is simple, you should be able to buy any X-86 based Networking gear and should be able to run NOS (Network Operating System) on top of your choice. In theory the NOS could be purpose built to meet your specific needs. So again , in theory you should end up paying for only the features of Entire NOS that you are using. Which at surface seems bit different from the way you used to pay to Networking Vendors in past.
So essentially in theory you end up with:
1. Cheaper Hardware
2. Standardized HW which run on x-86 Architecture instead of on Proprietary Vendor Chipset
3. NOS (Open Source or Vendor NOS) that you can run on Whitebox
4. In theory NOS should also be cheaper as you might only pay for what you use
So on surface those promises are very interesting indeed.
At surface they seem to bring couple of new factors into the equation which at first sounds very innovative such as:
Your Networking Hardware should be treated as Commodity similar to Server market. So idea is simple, you should be able to buy any X-86 based Networking gear and should be able to run NOS (Network Operating System) on top of your choice. In theory the NOS could be purpose built to meet your specific needs. So again , in theory you should end up paying for only the features of Entire NOS that you are using. Which at surface seems bit different from the way you used to pay to Networking Vendors in past.
So essentially in theory you end up with:
1. Cheaper Hardware
2. Standardized HW which run on x-86 Architecture instead of on Proprietary Vendor Chipset
3. NOS (Open Source or Vendor NOS) that you can run on Whitebox
4. In theory NOS should also be cheaper as you might only pay for what you use
So on surface those promises are very interesting indeed.
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