1 Excerpt
The Data Networking Market has been significantly changed during 2013 by the natural market process of commoditisation which will change way networking hardware and software . This report looks at key aspects of commoditisation in the form of Whitebox products.
The report starts by describing the market process of commoditisation in industrial & economic terms. The process of product commoditisation is normal for maturing marketplaces and widespread across the IT Infrastructure business. For example, desktop and server computing, printers, software development tools have already been commoditised. Understanding the market changes will help to measure the impact of commoditised network products on your infrastructure strategy and operations.
Then we cover key product components that make up a typical network device. Identifying the components that make up a commodity product leads to insights in the final products and how they will perform. Consider that a desktop computer is purchased by the type of CPU, memory and storage. In the near future, networking equipment will be purchased according to the Fabric Processor, NPU and SOC . I’ll explain these concepts and introduce many of the elements.
In the final section on Market Impacts,, we look at the impact this has on the engineer in the field. What changes are happening to products and how you can udnerstand the transition from low volume, custom-built products to standardised and mass market products.
1.1 Takeaways
Understand market forces that are driving changes in networking market through commoditisation are not unique or different to any other market or project. And that the market transition is permanent therefore must be included in future strategies and architectures
Provide insights into the fundamentals of whitebox product strategy through examination of components, manufacturing and market physics. This will lead to understanding how the products can be applied to your networking design & architectures.
Introduction to Commodity Technology Whitebox technology uses regular silicon components, hardware assembly & regular software to build network devices. Describing these components should build a basis for understanding the technology impact on networking and how to use it