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What is Bare Metal Switch & Whitebox Switch

This article mainly tells “what is baremetalswitch”, “what are the bare metalswitch vendors”, “the difference between bare metal switch and whitebox switch.” Its prices and development trends. let us read this article by Asterfusion What Is Bare Metal Switch? Bare metal switches are pure hardware device come from original design manufacturers (ODMs) which do not have a software preloaded. Users can independently develop their own applications runs on bare metal switch, such as P4 programmable bare metal switch, which , nowadays is very popular in IT research institutions, academy laboratories and university IT majors. Or uses can purchase a third-party network operating system (NOS) — like SONiC, Pica8, Cumulus Linux OS, IP infusion, etc. A bare metal switch comes with a boot-loader called the open network install environment (ONIE), which allows you to load an operating system onto the switch. In fact, servers (sometimes PCS and laptops) have been built this way for years.Users themse...

Asterfusion launches 400G Data center Solutions based on SONiC NOS

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Asterfusion on December 2022 announced its first set of 200G and 400G open data center network switches based its SONiC NOS with a main feature of low latency, aimed at alleviating the bandwidth needs of hyperscale cloud companies, large corporations, and other services in cloud data centers. Asterfusion CX-N Data Center Switch From 2T- 12.8 Tbps — Featuring Industry Leading Analytics, Low Latency ,Programmability, With Enterprise SONiC NOS Inside CX-N series is ultra-low latency Ethernet cloud switches self-developed by Asterfusion,It preloaded with a feature rich SONiC enterprise distribution-AterNOS which provides users a simple, plug-and-play deployment and turnkey solution .  It can provide high-performance network services for high Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, AI big data analysis, High-frequency trading, Cloud OS integration and other services in cloud data centers, it can also be deployed in various scenarios such as cloud-based campus networks and carrier networks...

SONiC-based open network switch support Cisco style Command Line

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Taday, we don’t talk about Asterfusion’s products or solutions, we want to share with you a customer “unsuccessful case”. Let’s briefly talk about the background first. In recent years, more and more cutting-edge technology enterprises began to have business runs on the cloud demand. Thus, the cloud has become a productivity tool to support application operations, and the data on the cloud is a valuable core asset for enterprises. Due to various factors, many companies have abandoned the public cloud and considered building a flexible, scalable, and autonomous private cloud. But this undoubtedly places strict demands on cloud infrastructure. Cloud networks, for example, need features such as low latency, high reliability, and easy scalability to carry large-amount AI analysis services… Of course, it is also necessary to take into account the cost performance of self-built cloud construction. Our potential customer, Company D, is an Internet technology company with a strong innovat...

A Low cost alternative to InfiniBand Switch- Asterfusion low latency cloud switch

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With the increased use of technologies like the Internet of Things , artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML), enterprises are producing huge quantities of data, and they need to process and use that data faster in real-time. In the past, enterprise users would choose InfiniBand switches to solve the network needs in HPC scenarios, and now, Asterfusion provides a more cost-effective CX-N   low latency switch   to offer a new option, Let’s read this article together. With the increased use of new technologies like the Internet of Things(IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML),etc,it can be predicted that in the next two or three decades, we will enter a smart society based on the Internet of Everything(IoE). Now,the computing power of the data center becomes the new productivity. In order to best meet the needs of customers in a digital world, it must be able to process large amounts of data faster than standard computers. Thus, High-performance ...