Cumulus already offers its NOS on lots of different hardware. But this is Lenovo’s first foray into the disaggregated switch model.

The Cumulus Linux operating system can run on many hardware switching platforms. And the company has relationships with about 10 vendors that, between them, offer more than 50 switching platforms.

Well, that’s a jarring change. Former pure-play networking software vendor Cumulus Networks is jumping into the hardware space. I’ve been following Cumulus Networks almost since its inception ...

The Cumulus Linux network OS is now available for Backpack, Facebook’s modular switch platform, and supports Wedge 100, the fixed configuration switch platform.

Cumulus claims that its solution will allow you to deploy 10G switches for the price of 1G switches from a “traditional” vendor, and that the switching hardware itself is in many cases the ...

Perhaps its main hardware partner, however, is enterprise and cloud-network switch and adapter vendor Mellanox, which NVIDIA bought April 27 in a $7 billion deal.

Nvidia today announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open-source-centric company that specializes in helping enterprises optimize their data center networking stack.Cumulus offers both ...