Server-based open networking taxes the CPU, so offload to an intelligent server adapter
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Networking using commercial off the shelf (COTS) servers has been around for several years, thanks to the proliferation of Linux-based servers and network technologies like Open vSwitch (OVS). The hope is that the switch world follows the servers’ successful path, hence the birth and popularity of the term “open networking.”
Network devices like top of rack (TOR) switches have traditionally been closed -- the operating systems and protocols that run on the switches were proprietary, could not be disaggregated from the hardware and were not open source.
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