SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Big Switch Networks, the company bringing hyperscale networking to data centers worldwide, announced today that its flagship product, Big Cloud Fabric, has achieved certification with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5. With this certification, Red Hat customers can now deploy a modern bare metal SDN fabric to bring greater operational simplicity and dramatic cost reduction to their OpenStack Clouds. In order to meet certification requirements, Big Cloud Fabric passed a comprehensive list of tests to determine compatibility with OpenStack APIs and other functions implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.

The certification of Big Cloud Fabric for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 enables customers to replace complex and costly legacy box-by-box networking with SDN fabric. The Big Cloud Fabric plug-in for OpenStack Neutron provides dynamic creation of network segments on the physical leaf/spine SDN fabric. Additional support for OpenStack Nova networking provides increased flexibility to customers. To speed up diagnostics, online fabric connectivity testing is exposed directly into OpenStack Horizon GUI, so each tenant can verify workload connectivity without involving a cloud operations team. Such self-service diagnostic tools, enabled through Big Cloud Fabric’s native REST APIs, further reduce the customer’s operational expenses.

Big Switch’s Big Cloud Fabric is tested acrossa broad set of Red Hat products for deployment flexibility: