What if the existing protocol stack is not enough?
Or features you are looking for are either missing or part of different solutions?
If your company has enough engineering resource, you may consider to develop your own protocols or monitoring features.
Or your company is developing a new network product and already decided to invest time and resources.
Developing for a switching ASIC requires not only specific knowledge about packet processing but also access to the ASIC SDK.
Even if vendors claim openness, access usually provided only to large customers with hundreds of boxes.
However, there is an open initiative by Broadcom – Open Network Switch Layer (OpenNSL). OpenNSL is a library of Open Networking APIs that enable the
development of innovative open source networking projects on widely deployed Broadcom network switch-based systems.
Unlike a typical SDK, OpenNSL and its documentation are available without any NDA-style agreement and provided as a ready-to-use package by the hardware vendor.
This philosophy allows a developer/startup to access the API for prototyping and development on supported platforms.
Using an open API eliminates the SLA barrier, enabling the development of innovative networking projects.
Netberg’s Broadcom Tomahawk-based switches were chosen by a European company to develop network visibility products, traffic aggregation products, and custom switch software.
Rapid feature development and the richest feature set and highest performing networking silicon in the industry allowed the creation of several brand-new networking products
in the 25G/100G Ethernet market. In less than eight months, these products already generate revenue or reducing network TCO for our partner.
Netberg meets the growing demand for open network hardware based on merchant silicon.
Taipei, Taiwan 8th of November 2021. Netberg’s SONiC platform code for Aurora 715 and Aurora 615 Innovium Teralynx-based switches is accepted into the official GitHub repository.
Taipei, Taiwan 1st of June 2021. Netberg, a leading open networking vendor, announces two new Aurora 715 and Aurora 615 models - high-performance 25/100G switches for future-proof Cloud, Enterprise, and Edge data centers.
Taipei, Taiwan 17th of November 2020. Netberg announces new services - custom networking software and hardware development.
Taipei, Taiwan 1st of September 2020. Netberg enables the era of next-gen SDN with its programmable Aurora 610, Aurora 710, and Aurora 750 switches.
Taipei, Taiwan 11th of August 2020. Netberg confirms its commitment to open standards and open source communities by joining the Telecom Infra Project (TIP).
Taipei, Taiwan 19th of February 2020. Today Netberg launches a new Academia and Research Program, designed to meet a constantly increasing demand from the research community for high-performance and programmable Tofino-based platforms.