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White-box switching, part 1

White-box switching, part 1

From the course: Practical Software-Defined Networking: 1 SDN and OpenFlow Quick Start

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White-box switching, part 1

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(whooshing) (engaging music) - [Instructor] This is one of multiple videos discussing SDN, network programmability, network automation, overlays, and related technologies. For years, it's been common practice in compute or server deployments that you buy your hardware from one vendor which could be HPE or Dell. You get your operating system from another vendor. So for example, you may want to run Microsoft Windows, or Linux or VMware ESXi. And then you get your applications from a third vendor or perhaps use open-source software such as Apache. So you're getting your hardware from one vendor, your network operating system from another vendor, and your applications from a third vendor. In traditional networking, a monolithic proprietary stack is used. You buy your hardware, your Operating System, and your applications from a single vendor, which could be Cisco, it could be HPE, it could be Arista, it could be Juniper. You are locked in to a proprietary network stack. That was true in…

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