Industry Technology Website www.bigswitch.com Headquarters Santa Clara | Number of employees 125-250 Founded 2010 Type of business Private | |
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Key people CEO: Douglas Murray; Founder: Kyle Forster; CFO: Wendell Laidley Products Big Monitoring Fabric; Big Cloud Fabric | ||
Big switch networks why sdn fabrics
Big Switch Networks (Big Switch) is an early Software Defined Networking (SDN) company that now positions itself as the next-generation data center networking company. Big Switch sells automated networks for enterprise and service provider environments. Big Switch Networks has two solutions: Big Monitoring Fabric, a network packet broker (NPB), which enables pervasive security and monitoring of data center and cloud traffic for inline or out-of-band deployments and Big Cloud Fabric, a data center switching fabric for OpenStack, VMware, container and Big Data use cases. The products leverage the principles of software-defined networking (SDN), along with a choice of industry-standard hardware, including hardware sold by Dell Technologies, Accton, and Quanta. Big Switch is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices located in Tokyo, Sydney, London and Istanbul.
Contents
- Big switch networks why sdn fabrics
- Big switch networks overview
- Company
- Key Technologies
- Open Source Projects
- References
Big switch networks overview
Company
Big Switch Networks was founded by Kyle Forster and Guido Appenzeller in 2010 and has roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking (SDN). Big Switch is widely considered one of the original pioneers of SDN. As of January 2016, the company has raised $94.3M in venture funding. Douglas Murray, a former Juniper Networks and Sun Microsystems executive, joined the company as CEO in 2013. Investors in the company include: Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Silver Lake, MSD Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Intel Capital.
In 2013 the company made available its first commercial product, Big Monitoring Fabric for network visibility and security and in 2014 the company released Big Cloud Fabric, the industry’s first open networking SDN fabric. Customers include: Verizon, Intuit, Clemson, U2 Cloud and the US Federal Government.
Key Technologies
Switch Light OS: An operating system for physical bare-metal Ethernet switches based on Open Network Linux (ONL), an open source effort within the Open Compute Project.
Switch Light vSwitch: A user space software module for KVM-based virtual switches that adds advanced functionality and improved performance on top of the Open vSwitch kernel.
Open Source Projects
In addition, Big Switch also sponsors and participates in several open source projects: