White Boxing
A white box is a switch/router manufactured from commodity components that allows different Network Operating Systems (NOSs) to be run on the same piece of commodity hardware, decoupling the NOS software from the hardware. White boxes, first deployed widely in data centres, offer an impressive forwarding capacity for a very low price. Although current NOS platforms do not provide all the features required by NRENs, the white box approach has the advantage of improving an NREN’s level of independence from router vendors and could thus change the way NRENs manage their network deployments.
The work reported here is a study of white box usage in the NREN context with the perspective of deploying them in production. However, the business decision to go into production is not only based on technical considerations and total cost of ownership but also on internal organisational constraints (such as team workload, capacity to hire staff, strategic plan, etc.).
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White box for research & education, Connect Magazine, Issue 38, 2021, p.20 |
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