In the fast-evolving networking market, the main advantage for any network product launch is its faster time to bring the product to market and that too at competitive prices. Of course, the quality and performance are unsaid factors to be considered. On contrary, the traditional networking approach has many disadvantages like scalability for SDN network, time to market and pricing. As a result, it enters the market at the delayed time and overpriced.
The network switch developed with the idea of network disaggregation is white box switch. White box switch enables ODM vendors to select the switching silicon and open source NOS of their own choice which makes it more scalable and price efficient. One can also change the running NOS on the network device with a new one by leveraging SAI interface and on board ONIE support. The single point supply chain is the conventional way now. Switch developers can customize the open networking software and hardware as per their requirement.