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But moving control of the network from hardware to software also meant we needed to look beyond the conventional way of using proprietary, “locked” equipment from a single vendor, to instead using decoupled, “open” components that can be stacked into one switching and routing platform. We call these open platforms “white box” systems.

As of today, we’ve migrated more than 52% of all our production traffic to our Next-Gen Core routers, which are based on the Broadcom Jericho2, Ramon chips and uses the Distributed Dis-Aggregated Chassis (DDC) design powered by DriveNets Network Cloud DNOS software. We are now exploring a path to scale the system to 500Tb/s and then to 900Tb/s using next-gen chipset.

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