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Edgecore Networks’

Leadership in Open

Networking

Edgecore is an Accton company, leveraging the network
technology, development and manufacturing capabilities of
Accton Technology, the leading network ODM.
Edgecore supplies Facebook and other hyperscale cloud
operators with open network switches that meet the most
demanding performance, scale, and reliability requirements.
Edgecore is a leader in the OCP Networking Project, with
a full set of open switches based on its approved design
contributions: a 10GbE TOR switch, which was the first
switch ever approved by OCP; a cost-optimized 40GbE
switch; and two 100GbE switches based on switch silicon
from different vendors, allowing network operators to
increase capacity with infrastructure based on 25G and 100G.
Edgecore has contributed new open hardware platform
classes to OCP that extend open networking to additional
use cases in the data center, the service provider edge, and
beyond to the enterprise access network.
Those platforms include an Open Modular Platform Edgecore leads the industry in working with partners
supporting up to 512-ports of 100GbE for data center spine and industry groups to validate and make open networks
and core network applications, high-buffer switches for data deployable, for example as a charter member of UNH-IOL
center interconnect and service provider edge applications, Open Networking Test Services Consortium, which validates
and the industry’s first open Wi-Fi access points and PoE interoperability among open network switches, NOS,
access switches that bring open networking to enterprise cables, optics, and NICs.
access networks. Edgecore’s value-added distributor, integrator, and
Edgecore switches support the broadest set of reseller partners provide a full set of services and IT
commercial and open source software choices in the industry, infrastructure to support the requirements of cloud
providing customers with alternatives to meet their specific service providers, big data companies, telecom
requirements. operators, and enterprises.
Edgecore has contributed the first 400G open networking
switch to OCP to lead the open networking innovation.

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