Amazon is set to take on the networking hardware landscape, The Information claims-- the online bookseller turned cloud giant reportedly plans to start selling low-cost whitebox datacentre switches.
According to the report, the Amazon switches will undercut comparable networking products by 70-80%, making for a massive swipe in the face of networking giants such as Cisco. Based on the technology found inside AWS datacentres, the switches should ship with pre-installed software for connection with AWS compute and storage, making it easier for customers to build build hybrid cloud infrastructure.
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