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    Top Answer:What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric.
    Top Answer:The licensing cost depends on the number of switches that are going to be licensed to run the software. I wasn't on the… more »
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    Overview

    Big Switch Networks is at the forefront of the next-generation of networking technologies. By combining industry standard switch hardware (“white box / branded white box “brite box”) with intelligent SDN control software, the company is delivering next-generation data center networking fabrics for the world’s most advanced data centers looking to achieve unmatched degrees of network automation at cloud-competitive price points.

    Big Switch Networks has two data center networking solutions: Big Cloud Fabric, a data center switching fabric for OpenStack clouds or VMware virtualization environments, and Big Monitoring Fabric, a network packet broker that enables pervasive security and security, monitoring data center traffic for inline or out-of-band deployments. Big Switch is taking three key technologies: vendor agnostic switch hardware, SDN control software, and core-and-pod data center designs –and leveraging them for use in next-generation data center switching and monitoring solutions designed for use in enterprises, cloud providers, and service providers.

    All Big Switch solutions run on high-performance open networking switches from Accton or Dell Technologies and leverage centralized SDN controller software for fabric-wide control and management. Big Switch Networks has two solutions:

    Brocade Software Defined Networking a dynamic, open, and logically centralized architecture. With Brocade SDN solutions, you can adjust network traffic flow on the fly to meet changing needs, put profitable services in place rapidly, and reduce operational risk. Brocade's software defined networking controllers and applications addresses your data center needs with an open architecture that enables programmable network control and an abstracted underlying infrastructure, providing Streamlined operations, simplified service provisioning, real-time data center visibility, increased flexibility, and risk-free change management.
    Cisco Software-Defined Networking (SDN) helps organizations accelerate application deployment and delivery, through policy-enabled work-flow automation. SDN technology enables cloud architectures by providing automated, on-demand application delivery and mobility at scale. SDN accomplishes these business objectives by converging the management of network and application services into centralized, extensible orchestration platforms that can automate the provisioning and configuration of the entire infrastructure.
    Sample Customers
    A10 Networks, Edge-Core Networks, Blue Coat Systems, BlueData, Broadcom Corporation, Canonical, Check Point Software Technologies, Citrix, Dell, FireEye, Garland, Hortonworks, Mirantis, Nexenta, Riverbed
    Boligkontoret Danmark, City of Irvine, Colorcon, Cybercom, Einhell, Finansbank
    Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co.KG
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company16%
    University8%
    Government8%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
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