Cumulus Networks and Dell still believe they’ve got a revolution brewing, no matter what Cisco might say.

#Cumulus Networks and #Dell still believe they’ve got a revolution brewing, no matter what #Cisco might say.

In 2010, as software-defined networking ( #SDN ) was just leaving the nest, JR Rivers and cohorts founded Cumulus to serve a like-minded cause: open networking, where customers would buy generic hardware and load it with the operating systems of their choice.

Cumulus is one of the companies aiming to provide that software, a full Linux OS that includes networking features. It’s enlistedpartners including Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ), and #Mellanox — although Dell, with its OS10, now has open networking software of its own.

At the recent OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, I caught up with Rivers, who became Cumulus’s CTO after ceding the CEO position to Josh Leslie. We talked about the Dell partnership and Cumulus’s place in the world, now that the battle lines in white-box switching and SDN are more clearly drawn.

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