SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil “starter kits” designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews.

The starter kits provide the hardware and software necessary for a simple lab proof of concept up to a full two-rack production network fabric ready for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, big data and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects.

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“While our largest customers are building pods for 16K [virtual machines], we realize that the majority of enterprise architects want to experiment with hyperscale networking on a small project first,” said CEO Doug Murray. “These starter kits are intended to make that fast and easy.”

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