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Open Networking OS Cumulus Linux to be Available on Facebook’s Voyager

Open Networking OS Cumulus Linux to be Available on Facebook’s Voyager Image Credit: Cumulus

Cumulus Networks said that it is working to make Cumulus Linux available on Voyager, an open transponder and routing platform by Telecom Infra Project (TIP).

Facebook contributed Voyager to TIP to address operator needs for scalable, cost-effective backhaul infrastructure in support of increasing global internet usage and bandwidth-intensive applications like video, virtual reality, scientific research, and machine learning.

Voyager is an Open Packet DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) system that disaggregates hardware from software and that can fulfill multiple use cases in metro and long-haul fiber optic transport networks. Voyager with Cumulus Linux is expected to be generally available for production use in early 2018 through partner ADVA Optical Networking.

The collaboration on the Voyager platform marks Cumulus Networks’ expansion beyond the data center networking market and into the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) market. More than 800 customers, including over a third of the Fortune 50, use Cumulus Networks technology to enable web-scale networking in their data centers.

The combination of Cumulus Linux and Voyager extends the benefits of the Linux networking model – including increased operational efficiency and lower costs – to optical networks.

Through Cumulus Linux, IP + optical networks reap the benefits of an open and flexible full featured protocol stack that offers reliability, automation, programmability, telemetry based capabilities, and VXLAN support.

Josh Leslie, CEO of Comulus Networks
Opening up closed, black-box systems enables innovation at every level, so that customers can meet the challenges facing their networks faster and more efficiently.

Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Co-Chair of the TIP Open Optical Packet Transport Project Group 
Our collaboration with Cumulus Networks to enable Cumulus Linux on Voyager is an important contribution that will help accelerate the ecosystem’s adoption of Voyager.

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