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Dell has celebrated the first birthday of its open networking program by launching more products. The program is part of Dell's take on software-defined networking with its core idea being that punters might want to buy kit running an operating system other than that devised by its maker. This arrangement differs from white …

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  1. Terafirma-NZ

    I didn't think the 25G spec had been finalized for general use yet? I know it has been around for some time and mainly used in 100G back-haul links. Great news hopefully this will mean 10G will become normal and drop in price.

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    World+dog assumes that network operators are going software-defined and open switches are Dell's lash at the market.

    No, it is just Dell's inability to do R&D. It is a box shifter and anything and everything that requires investing proper engineering and research (such as routing and switching software) is "optimized out". Just look what it did with Force10.

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