Pica8
Pica8, Inc. is a computer networking company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. Pica8 is a vendor of open-standards-based operating systems on white box network switches delivering software-defined networking (SDN) solutions for datacenter and cloud computing environments and traditional L2/L3 solutions for large enterprise customers. The company's products include a Linux-based L2/L3 and OpenFlow-supporting network operating system, PicOS, which is shipped as standalone software that can be loaded onto a range of 1/10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet switches based on commoditized ("white box") switches purchased from original design manufacturers (ODMs).
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud Networking, Open White Box Enterprise Networking |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Brad Bullington (CEO) James Liao (CTO & co-founder) Lin Du (VP of Engineering & co-founder) Niraj Jain (Head of International Business Operations) |
| Products | Software -- Linux-based NOS, automated switch configuration |
| Website | pica8 |
The company's approach is to combine commodity network hardware (from manufacturers like Accton, Foxconn, Quanta) with Debian Linux, L2/L3 protocol stacks, a full enterprise feature set, OpenFlow controller and Open vSwitch (OVS) to create both a more "democratic" SDN solutions with competitive price compared to conventional embedded switches as well as more flexible and scalable disaggregated enterprise white box networking solutions.