Facebook's 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open and promises faster speed

October 20, 2016 Technology

Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open and promises faster speed

Wedge 100 specification has been accepted into OCP... upping the speeds to 100Gbps (bits per second).

Link to FBOSS code is all open sourced and available on GitHub here.

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