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Pica8

Pica8
Company typePrivate
IndustryCloud Networking, Open White Box Enterprise Networking
Founded2009
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
,
USA
Key people
Brad Bullington (CEO)
James Liao (CTO & co-founder)
Lin Du (VP of Engineering & co-founder)
Niraj Jain (Head of International Business Operations)
ProductsSoftware -- Linux-based NOS, automated switch configuration
Websitepica8.com

Pica8 Software Inc. is a computer networking company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. Pica8 is a vendor of open-standards-based operating systems on white box network switches delivering software-defined networking (SDN) solutions[buzzword] for datacenter and cloud computing environments and traditional L2/L3 solutions[buzzword] for large enterprise customers. The company's products include a Linux-based L2/L3 and OpenFlow-supporting network operating system, PicOS, which is shipped as standalone software that can be loaded onto a range of 1/10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet switches based on commoditized ("white box") switches purchased from original design manufacturers (ODMs).[1]

The company's approach is to combine commodity network hardware (from manufacturers like Accton, Foxconn, Quanta[1]) with Debian Linux, L2/L3 protocol stacks, a full enterprise feature set, OpenFlow controller and Open vSwitch (OVS) to create both a more "democratic" SDN solutions[buzzword] with competitive price compared to conventional embedded switches[2][3][4][5][6] as well as more flexible and scalable disaggregated enterprise white box networking solutions.[buzzword]

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