Cumulus Networks

Cumulus Networks
Private company
Industry Networking software, Cloud Networking
Founded January 2010
Headquarters Mountain View, California, USA
Key people
 Josh Leslie, CEO,
JR Rivers, CTO & Co-Founder,
Nolan Leake, Co-Founder
Products Operating System for Switches
Website www.cumulusnetworks.com

Cumulus Networks is a computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA. The company designs and sells a Linux operating system for industry standard network switches to deliver networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, and enterprise environments.

Background

Cumulus Networks was founded by JR Rivers and Nolan Leake in 2010. The company raised a first round of seed funding in 2012.[1] Cumulus Networks emerged publicly in June 2013[2] after previously operating in stealth mode.[3][4][5] The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter Wagner and 4 of the 5 original VMware founders.[6][7]

In 2014 Dell made a deal with Cumulus to offer the option of the Cumulus Linux network OS with their switches.[8]

In 2015, Hewlett Packard Enterprise made a deal with Cumulus Networks to offer Cumulus Linux on their Altoline switches.[9]

In 2016, Mellanox made a deal with Cumulus Networks to offer Cumulus Linux on their Spectrum switches.[10]

Products

Cumulus Linux

Cumulus Linux is an open networking Linux operating system for bare metal switches. It is based on Debian.[11]

NetQ

NetQ is a fabric-wide telemetry-based validation system that enables organizations to validate network state, both during regular operations and for post-mortem diagnostic analysis.[12][13]

Host Pack

Host Pack includes software essentials that brings the host to the network through NetQ and FRRouting. Host Pack focuses on trying to enhance network visibility through NetQ’s end-to-end fabric validation, and on trying to promote network connectivity through FRRouting’s open source routing protocol. It enables the host to be part of the layer 3 network, while supporting layer 2 overlay networks.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Stacey Higginbotham (March 5, 2012). "The lowdown on stealth startup Cumulus Networks". GigaOM.
  2. ↑ Deborah Gage (June 19, 2013). "Bringing Linux to Networking, Cumulus Publicly Emerges" (blog). The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ Paul Venezia (June 19, 2013). "Cumulus Networks unveils 'Cisco killer'".
  4. ↑ Greg Ferro (June 19, 2013). "Cumulus Networks Casts a Shadow On Cisco Strategy".
  5. ↑ Jack Clark (June 20, 2013). "Cumulus sighting means storm coming for Cisco".
  6. ↑ "Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking". June 19, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
  7. ↑ "Cumulus Networks Investors".
  8. ↑ "Dell Teams With Cumulus Networks To Sell Bare-Metal Switches".
  9. ↑ "HP Launches New Open Network Switches for Web Scale Cloud Data Centers".
  10. ↑ "Mellanox Lets Cumulus Linux Ride its Ethernet Switches". SDxCentral. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  11. ↑ "Cumulus Linux: An open network operating system on Linux | Cumulus Networks". cumulusnetworks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  12. ↑ "NetQ Fabric Validation | Cumulus Networks". cumulusnetworks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  13. ↑ "Cumulus launches NetQ to monitor networks built on its SDN software". SearchSDN. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  14. ↑ "Linux Network OS | Cumulus Networks". cumulusnetworks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.


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