Company AT-A-GLANCE

BIG SWITCH NETWORKS

Hyperscale Networking for All

Big Switch Networks is bringing hyperscale data center networking

technologies to a broader audience. Using bare metal and open Ethernet
switch hardware, sophisticated SDN control software, and modern data
center designsBig Switch delivers fit-for-purpose data center networking
solutions designed for enterprises, cloud providers and service providers.

MANAGEMENT TEAM
Douglas Murray
Chief Executive Officer
Kyle Forster
VP of Marketing/Co-Founder
Prashant Gandhi
VP of Product Management & Strategy
Shaun Page
VP of Worldwide Sales

Every time you search on Google, friend on Facebook or start a VM on Amazon, you are
using the worlds most cost-efficient and most automated data center networksthose built
from bare metal switches and SDN controllers. Our mission is to bring hyperscale networking
to a broader audience, removing the network as an obstacle to rapid deployment of new
applications. We do this by delivering the design philosophy of hyperscale networking in
complete solutions:
I. Bare Metal Hardware to Reduce Cost
II. SDN Software to Reduce Complexity

Joe Palazola
VP of Operations and Customer Support

III. Modern Data Center Designs to Innovate Faster

Rob Sherwood
Chief Technology Officer

PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

Jeffrey Wang
VP of Engineering

Big Switch is taking key hyperscale networking design principles and applying them to fitfor-purpose products for enterprises, cloud providers and service providers. The companys
Big Tap Monitoring Fabric is a production-grade SDN solution to monitor existing networks,
and the flagship Big Cloud Fabric is the industrys most advanced bare metal SDN switching
fabric intended for new data center pods such as private cloud, big data and virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI).
Big Cloud Fabric embraces the hyperscale data center network design principles to enable
rapid innovation, easy provisioning and management, while reducing overall costs.
By featuring SDN software and bare metal Ethernet switch hardware in core-andpod designs, the Big Cloud Fabric delivers multi-hypervisor based hyperscale
networking to a broad class of users. The BCF solution is available in two editions:
P-Clos Edition: Leaf-spine physical Clos fabric controlled via SDN
Unified P+V Clos Edition: Leaf-spine plus vSwitches controlled by SDN

Get hands-on experience with our offering,

register for a free online trial at:
bsnlabs.bigswitch.com
Contact our sales team at:
sales@bigswitch.com
For general inquiries contact us at:
info@bigswitch.com

Big Tap Monitoring Fabric is an advanced network visibility solution that leverages highperformance bare metal Ethernet switches to provide the most scalable, flexible
and cost-effective monitoring fabric. Using an SDN-centric architecture, Big Tap
enables tapping traffic everywhere in the network and deliver it to troubleshooting,
network monitoring, application performance monitoring or security tools in
consolidated tool farms.

Big Switch Networks: Hyperscale Networking for All

Company AT-A-GLANCE

Figure 1:
Getting to Hyperscale with
fit for purpose solutions

Enabling Technology

BIG SWITCH NETWORKS PARTNER PROGRAM

To bring complete solutions to market, Big Switch depends on world

class enabling technologies such as:

Software innovation paired with widely available bare metal and

open hardware allows Big Switch Partners to bring SDN solution
leadership to market. The Big Partner Program allows resale,
technology and strategic partnerships to thrive with compelling
rewards for value added. Our joint solutions offer customers
the broadest range of deployment options to drive new levels
of business agility, flexibility and reduced cost of ownership of
network operations.

Switch Light OS, a bare metal switch OS purpose built for SDN
Switch Light vSwitch, a high performance SDN vSwitch for
Unified P+V solutions
In conjunction with a centralized SDN controller, Switch Light
enables dramatic reductions in the cost of your network operations
and eliminates time-consuming, manual procedures by enabling
central provisioning, automation and troubleshooting.

To learn more about our partners and partnership opportunities,

please visit: www.bigswitch.com/partners

OPEN PHILOSOPHY

Company Background

Since inception, Big Switch Networks has been an active member

of a number of open source communities and contributor to
numerous projects. Core to the companys engineering philosophy
is a component-based approach, where open source and
commercial modules exist side-by-side. When combined with
strong ethos of engineering design, this leads to a higher quality
product experience in the near term, faster innovation in the mid
term and more customer choice in the long term.

Big Switch was founded in 2010. With roots in the original Stanford
research team that invented Software Defined Networking (SDN),
the company is widely considered one of the original SDN pioneers
and has one of the industrys broadest portfolios of enabling
technologies for SDN.

We are currently members of, and invest in, three communities:

OpenStack: The company has participated both as a downstream user of OpenStack, a commercial entity in the OpenStack
product ecosystem and as a significant upstream contributor.
Open Compute Project: Big Switch co-sponsored the contribution of ONIE (Open Network Install Environment), and most
recently led the contribution of Open Network Linux.
Open Networking Foundation: Big Switch employees have
chaired multiple working groups, including the Architecture
Working Group and the Technical Advisory Group.

Starting in 2013, the company began packaging technology

components in to Bare Metal SDN Fabric Solutions, bringing together
the advanced feature sets enabled by SDN software with the
industry-leading price points provided by bare metal switches. While
switching and routing is one area of focus, these core technologies
are currently being applied in several key networking markets.

LEARN MORE
Whether you want to build an IaaS cloud or monitor legacy
networks, move to a fabric architecture or build a bare metal SDN
podWe can help. Choose a project where we can start and call
us in. To get the latest updates, connect with us at:
* Blog: www.bigswitch.com/news-events/sdn-blog
* Twitter: Follow us @bigswitch
* Facebook: www.facebook.com/bigswitchnetworks

In addition, the company has actively contributed to its own open

source projects; Project Floodlight and Project Indigo.

* YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/bigswitchnetworks

To learn more, please visit: http://bigswitch.com/go-open

Headquarters
3965 Freedom Circle, Suite
300, Santa Clara, CA 95054

+1.650.322.6510 TEL
+1.800.653.0565 TOLL FREE

www.bigswitch.com
info@bigswitch.com

Copyright 2014 Big Switch Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Big Switch Networks, Big Cloud Fabric, Big Tap, Switch Light
OS, and Switch Light vSwitch are trademarks or registered trademarks of Big Switch Networks, Inc. All other trademarks,
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Networks assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies in this document. Big Switch Networks reserves the right to
change, modify, transfer or otherwise revise this publication without notice. BSN At a Glance V1 Sept 2014