The growing ecosystem around open networking hardware

This post details the growing ecosystem around Meta's open networking hardware initiatives, including Wedge 100, Backpack, and Voyager. It highlights contributions to the Open Compute Project and Telecom Infra Project, and showcases how various companies (Cumulus Networks, Big Switch Networks, Barefoot Networks, SnapRoute, Canonical, Cavium, Apstra) are building software and hardware solutions that leverage these open designs. The post emphasizes the benefits of disaggregation and openness in enabling faster evolution, flexibility, and scalability of data center infrastructure. It also announces the commercial availability of Wedge 100 and pre-orders for Backpack.