Amazon Web Services Eyes to Sell its Networking Switches
Amazon’s cloud service business ‘Amazon Web Services’ is eyeing to sell its own networking switches to the business customers. Amazon Web Services could price its white-box switches 70-80% less than comparable switches from networking giant Cisco, as reported by one of the persons with direct knowledge of the unit's plan.
The company expects to launch the switches in the next 18 months. It stated that the devices will include open-source software and unbranded hardware known as "white-box" switches and will be introduced with built-in connections to AWS cloud services, such as servers and storage.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. It is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and offers on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals...