<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just curious how many of you have deployed / are deploying / Open Networking in production environments.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm interested to see if ON is making its way down to the edge (1Gbps PoE/PoE+) or if it's mainly being used at the distribution / core layers or at the service provider level where there's little end device connectivity and it's more about moving the packets around.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Comments on hardware choice / stability / longevity / MTBF / support, are also appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">From a Cumulus perspective it looks like 1 Gbps - 100Gbps is where things are focused. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nothing with PoE/PoE+ support so it looks like at the moment we're only talking about datacenter switching.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What I don't see deployed today is a lot of technology mix, especially in switching. Customers have a preference and for support / interop / personal reasons tend to stick with a single vendor for switching.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In the past this has made sense as switches did not always play well with others.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm wondering what you all think the 3 - 5 year picture looks like.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I suspect it looks a lot like the current virtualization market. A few major players with custom software built on open source foundations, being hardware agnostic and the holdouts trying to ignore the fact that the industry is fundamentally changing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Simon</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div>