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Pica8, Inc. is a computer networking company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. Pica8 is a vendor of operating systems on white box network switches delivering software-defined networking (SDN) solutions for datacenter and cloud computing environments. The company's products include Linux-based OpenFlow-supporting switching operating system PicOS, which is shipped either as standalone software or pre-loaded onto a range of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet switches based on commoditized ("white box") switches purchased from original design manufacturers (ODMs).〔 Pica8's R&D facility is located in Beijing, China.〔〔 The company's approach is to combine commodity network hardware (from manufacturers like Accton, Foxconn, Quanta〔) with Debian Linux, OpenFlow controller and Open vSwitch (OVS) to create more "democratic" SDN solutions with competitive price compared to conventional embedded switches.〔〔〔〔〔 == History == The company was founded in 2009.〔〔 It launched a family of OpenFlow-enabled Ethernet switches in August 2009 and has been selling products ever since.〔 In 2010, Pica8 was selling 48-port gigabit Ethernet and 10-gigabit Ethernet switches at half the price of comparable products of Force10 and Arista Networks. It achieved such result through combining open source software with merchant ASICs (from companies like Broadcom, Marvell, and Intel/Fulcrum) on switches from "white-box vendors".〔 In July 2011, Pica8 added support for the open source "Indigo" OpenFlow stack from Big Switch Networks to its switches as an alternative stack. In November 2011 it embedded Open vSwitch (OVS), developed by Nicira, into its operation system PicOS to enable more sophisticated network management from inside the switch.〔 In October 2012 Pica8 raised $6.6m in Series A funding from VantagePoint Capital Partners to support its sales and product development.〔〔 On 10 December 2012 the company exited stealth mode with introduction of SDN reference architecture aimed at cloud providers.〔〔 By 2013, among about 100 Pica8's customers, including large service providers and hosting companies, were such companies as Baidu, Yahoo! Japan〔〔〔 and NTT Communications.〔 In December 2013, the company launched the Pica8 SDN Starter Kit, an "out-of-the-box" kit that includes an open-source network controller, a programmable network tap, an open-source network intrusion detection system, and other components meant to give customers a complete SDN solution, which would be quick to implement.〔 In April 2014 Pica8 claimed to be the first vendor to support the latest version 1.4 of OpenFlow〔〔 and to have over 300 customers globally.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pica8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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