Recently, Broadcom has opensourced API for their network switching asic as part of OpenNSL project. I tried to dig little deep into what it really means and this blog is a result of that.
What is really Opensourced?
Following picture from Broadcom OpenNSL project clearly illustrates this:
Following are some notes:
Earlier, I had written a blog on Opencompute networking project. There were few recent contributions from Facebook to Opencompute. In this blog, I wanted to capture major Opencompute Networking contributions from Facebook. I see these contributions as pretty significant in the context of White box switches.
The goal here was to develop modular switches where any hardware component of the switch can be replaced independently. Servers in the TOR use the Group Hug architecture where standard connector is used to connect the servers to the motherboard. This can allow a easier change of processor.
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