<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Saw this post wander by, and was wondering what some of your takes would be.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I for one am a huge supporter in the idea of opensource networking infrastructure. but also the idea of a network that is even more modular...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">=========================</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">World waves 'goodbye' to CISCO!</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">With new generation of Debian/UBUNTU GNU/Linux switches, coming with full sources for <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sdn?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">SDN‬</span></a> (Software Defined Networking).</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">After <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/snowden?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">Snowden‬</span></a>/ <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nsa?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">NSA‬</span></a> revelations nobody in the world is buying U.S. closed software/hardware any longer.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">Large parts of Linux now run on ultra fast, freely programmable ASICs, being able to completely replace CISCO greenware.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">But not only that. You now can run your UBUNTU "Snappy" containers directly on your switches. No more dedicated servers. Oops?</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">Wave 'goodbye' to John Chambers at Levi’s Stadium on July 27 with some handful of <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cisco?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">Cisco‬</span></a> employees, that are left over: <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ciscorocks?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">CiscoRocks‬</span></a> and<a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wearecisco?source=feed_text&story_id=10203152126003649" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none"><span class="_58cl" style="color:rgb(98,122,173)">‪#‎</span><span class="_58cm">WeAreCisco‬</span></a>.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/18/worlds-first-25100-gigabit-open-ethernet-based-switch-launches/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none">https://insights.ubuntu.com/…/worlds-first-25100-gigabit-o…/</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/13/iot-world-snappy-for-whitebox-switches/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none">https://insights.ubuntu.com/…/iot-world-snappy-for-whitebo…/</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/18/lxd-crushes-kvm-in-density-and-speed/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none">https://insights.ubuntu.com/…/lxd-crushes-kvm-in-density-a…/</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><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