Hardened version of open source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s Cisco is close to allowing customers to run the SONiC network operating system on its flagship Nexus 9000 series datacenter switches. SONiC – aka “Software for Open Networking in the Cloud” – is a Linux Foundation project that develops an open source network operating system NOS capable of running on diverse switches and silicon. The project started life at Microsoft , which adapted the software from its Debian based Azure Cloud...
