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So what about Facebook?

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Facebook have developed two open hardware switches.

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Here's an example of their six pack switch.

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And before that.

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They had developed their wedge top of rack switch.

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Information is available on Facebook's website explaining how Facebook have created an open hardware

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switch.

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This is part of the open compute project.

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And the idea is, rather than just having open source software, let's have open hardware.

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So open compute.

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In other words, servers, open storage as well as open networking.

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Why do we have proprietary network devices?

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Why don't we have open hardware?