So what about Facebook?
Facebook have developed two open hardware switches.
Here's an example of their six pack switch.
And before that.
They had developed their wedge top of rack switch.
Information is available on Facebook's website explaining how Facebook have created an open hardware
switch.
This is part of the open compute project.
And the idea is, rather than just having open source software, let's have open hardware.
So open compute.
In other words, servers, open storage as well as open networking.
Why do we have proprietary network devices?
Why don't we have open hardware?