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Today, we talk to network architect Andrey Khomyakov, who’s helped his organization make the transition from traditional to open networking in production.
What’s it like to disaggregate switch hardware from network operating system? Was it hard? Does it really work? What’s support like? Was any money saved? Will I get fired for suggesting my company go the open networking route? Andrey will answer these and more questions.
Pete Lumbis, long time friend of the Packet Pushers and contributor to the networking community, also joins with some of his insights learned in his role at Cumulus Networks. This is not a sponsored show. We just want to share the real-world experience of going new-school disaggregation with your networking.
We’ll look at the distinctions between open networking, disaggregation, and whitebox. We’ll also look at day-to-day operations with whitebox, common problems, how to choose a whitebox, and more.
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I haven’t quite finished this episode yet, but I’m absolutely digging it. Andrey is a very good speaker, and the operational aspects of working with open networking/whitebox/dissaggregation are exactly what I want to hear about.
Speed rails for switches!
It’s 50 minutes talking about hardware and 10 minutes about operations. I don’t care about hardware at all. I’m interested in automation and orchestration. This talk is a waste of time.
Andrew, sorry this show didn’t hit the mark for you. Andrey had already pinged me about a follow-up show where we discuss how they are handling their automation. It’s a big topic that needs more time than we were able to get into in this recording, everyone’s schedules and day jobs being what they are. Especially the guests who give up their time for free to share with the community. In any case, nothing’s scheduled yet, but I’ll follow up with Andrey and see if we can get the discussion you’re looking for to happen.
If there are specific questions you’re interested in, post them here. I’ll make an effort to get them addressed.
Really enjoyed this show. Touched on all the important aspects of considering using this model such as support and spareing