The 1st Open, Hardware Independent Network Operating System
Pica8™ is the first to offer hardware-independent open switches. Physical “white box” switch hardware run PicOS™, an open network operating system that supports standards-based Layer 2/Layer 3 protocols with Industry-leading OpenFlow 1.4 support.
What makes PicOS open?
- PicOS is hardware independent: the operating system is not tightly coupled to switching ASICs, CPU or memory hardware
- We expose Linux, so you can use your existing tools for programming and optimizing Pica8 open switches to support your network
- PicOS has the only OpenFlow 1.4 support, through Open vSwitch (OVS) v2.4 integration. OVS runs as a process within PicOS, and provides the OpenFlow interface for external programmability
Pica8 Network Operating System Overview
Leverage Pica8′s operating system — PicOS — with two powerful modes of operation to suite your needs. The Open vSwitch (OVS) Mode and L2/L3 Mode of the open switch
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