Asterfusion SONiC NOS based 48x1G Base-T PoE+ Open Campus Switch Overview
Previously, we’ve written a lot articles about open networking and white box switching. From now on, we will start to do a series of Asterfusion switch teardowns for a more detailed evaluation. Before the text begins, it is necessary to give a brief introduction to the Asterfusion switch family, which is divided into DC Fabric and Campus Access . The former provides TOR and SPINE application networking for data centers, and the latter offers typical networking capabilities for campus access. Asterfusion named its SONiC-based enterprise distribution as AsterNOS , and the system model equipped with AsterNOS was named CX series. Among them, CX200-M is a new generation Campus Access series, the speed starts from Gigabit access; that is part of the Asterfusion’s campus network solution for aggregation and access layers. But actually, the solution is based on Spine/Leaf architecture , not the traditional “access-aggregation-core”, which we...