Facebook announced softswitch
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The world's largest social network today presented an open software model of a network switch that can manage servers in a data center scale. The new concept could potentially threaten the business giants such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, as the cost of the software router support is significantly lower than for the maintenance of the hardware park. As described in Facebook, their router can control the flow of traffic, where it was originally optimized for with large Internet projects that require system web load balancing, sophisticated routing and other features.
In Facebook said that faced with the need to create your own software router, after the company has grown to the extent of those that work with conventional switches has become inconvenient. Switches open design - this is the last step of the biggest social networking to create a network infrastructure solutions. Since 2011, Facebook together with its partners is working to develop more efficient and cost-effective solutions. Gay exchange initiatives under the previously created project Open Compute Project.
This project aims at the exchange of technology and ideas on software and hardware components and data center networks vysokoskorotnyh. Here partners involved in the creation of servers, storage and networking products customized design. Earlier Facebook stated that due to developments created in the bowels of the Open Compute Project, she managed to save $ 1.2 billion on infrastructure.
Last year, Facebook has invested 1.36 billion dollars in the creation of their own servers. During 2013 the volume of investments has doubled. In the Facebook servers to buy customizable projects from companies such as Quanta Computer, instead of buying equipment from brands such as HP, IBM or Dell.
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