activereach is a partner to both Cumulus Networks and Mellanox Technologies so it was great to see the recent news that the NVIDIA purchases bring them together under the one banner.  Could this be the sign that open networking is about to make a big leap forward in terms of mainstream adoption (something we mentioned in a previous blog)? 

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The traditional way of designing and procuring hyper-scale networks has been seen almost as an outmoded concept since the advent of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) but the key part of this wave, the use of open source operating systems for network switches and routers, is allowing a real “sea-change” in the industry.

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