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1. Why a Bare Metal Switch Running
Cumulus® Linux®

2. Disaggregation in Compute World
 Linux Fueled the Data Center Compute
Revolution Years Ago
Servers: Legacy Systems
Servers: Open Ecosystem
Complex monolithic systems that lock in and don’t scale
Agile, open, scalable with unprecedented cost savings

3. This is Happening in Networking Now
 Merchant Silicon and Bare Metal Switches Enables
the Same Paradigm Shift in the Network Now
Traditional Network Gear
New Paradigm
Complex monolithic systems that lock in and don’t scale
Disaggregate the Networking Gear from the Network OS

4. Enabled by a Standard Networking OS
 The Missing Piece: Cumulus® Linux®, Bringing the
Linux Revolution to Networking

5. Resulting in Substantial Benefits
 The Results for Your Software Defined Data Center
Faster
Easier
 Delivers high capacity fabrics with
unprecedented price-performance
 Simplifies orchestration, automation
and monitoring of networks
 Enables next generation
architectures
 Consistent Linux-based toolsets for
network and compute
 Enables the next wave of
scale, collaboration and innovation
Affordable
 Lower OPEX/CAPEX
 Break free from vendor lock-in
 Enables large ecosystem of native
Linux apps

6. ONIE — Open Network Install Environment
Modern, Efficient Installer
Industry Support
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Enables ODM ecosystem
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Open source
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Well-documented
Configure management Ethernet interface
IPv6 ND, DHCPv4, Static IP Address
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Discover OS installation source
HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SCP
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Fetch installation file
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Install OS and reboot
ONIE

7. Cumulus® Linux®
Best of Networking and
Linux Come Together
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IPv4/IPv6 routing and bridging
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Modern datacenter & network
orchestration, unifying common functions, scaling
network specific ones
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Linux operations and troubleshooting
A multi-platform operating system for networking
hardware that makes building, managing and
automating massive-capacity next-generation
datacenter networks simple.

8. Thank You!
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