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What we add

Topic graph

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AI infrastructure https://decisioninsights.ai/term/ai-infrastructure/ Data Center https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/ Networking https://decisioninsights.ai/term/networking/ and 11 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects Open Switch (OPX), OpenSwitch, POX, OCP Open Network Linux, OCP SONiC, NOX, OCP Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) Related organizations Netberg, Asterfusion Data Technologies, DENT, Netris, Agema Systems, Kaloom, Accton, BISDN