Cumulus networks press announcements

November 18, 2019

Cumulus Networks Unveils Its 4th-Generation of Open, Modern Network Software

Latest updates allow enterprises to run and operate modern networking environments and provide a faster way to validate root cause of network issues

October 31, 2019

Benchmark Study Reveals Open Infrastructure at the Core of Data Center Transformations

70% of companies are turning to open networking as they take advantage of innovative technologies such as AI and 5G

October 16, 2019

Cumulus Networks Extends Data Center Innovation to Modernize Campus Networks

Cumulus Networks and Dell EMC extend joint benefits of open networking to campus networks and enable a single network OS across data center and campus environments

April 23, 2019

Cumulus Networks Reinvents Network Visibility For Today’s Modern Data Centers with NetQ 2.0

Operational management tool provides real-time telemetry and fabric-wide analytics, simplifying management of data center networking

March 14, 2019

Cumulus Networks First to Power Facebook's Next Gen Open Modular Platform, Minipack

Cumulus Linux brings a flexible and open networking model to the next generation of modular hardware, allowing enterprises to architect and design open networks with scale and operational efficiency in mind

January 22, 2019

Cumulus Networks Strengthens Board of Directors Amid Record Growth and Market Adoption of its Open, Modern Networking Software

Former Deutsche Bank Group COO, Kim Hammonds, joins board as company leads the transition to open networking and data center modernization

December 19, 2018

FS.COM collaborates with Cumulus Networks to bring open networking directly to its 100,000+ customers

Organizations can now take advantage of an efficient and affordable modern data center, with open networking at the core, in order to maintain competitive advantage

December 10, 2018

Cumulus Networks Partners with Lenovo to Deliver Networking Switches for the Open, Modern Data Center

Lenovo will support market-leading Cumulus Linux and Cumulus NetQ to help organizations achieve open and scalable modern data centers

November 19, 2018

LINE Corporation Collaborates with Mellanox and Cumulus Networks to Power Advanced Messaging Platform

Provider of Japan’s Largest Messaging App Deploys Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches Running Cumulus Linux in 1000+ Switches, Tens of Thousands of Compute Nodes Data Center

October 16, 2018

Cumulus Networks Announces Industry-First Transponder Abstraction Interface, Bringing Interoperability and Openness to Data Center Interconnect Technology

In Collaboration with NTT Electronics, the Telecom Infra Project and Facebook, Cumulus Networks Drives Fast, Disaggregated Optical Chip Integration with Voyager

August 20, 2018

Cumulus Networks announces support for platforms with Broadcom Trident 3 ASIC

Combination of Broadcom-based platforms and Cumulus Linux provides ultimate flexibility and ease of use

May 22, 2018

Vault Systems Selects Mellanox and Cumulus Networks to Build a Secure, Scalable, High Performance OpenStack Cloud

Leveraging Cutting-edge, Flexible Technology Solutions from Mellanox and Cumulus Networks, Vault Systems Offers Government Unparalleled Cloud Network Performance

April 18, 2018

Cumulus Networks Bolsters Cumulus NetQ with Kubernetes Integration to Provide Network Operators with Actionable Insight into Container Networking

Web-scale networking leader taps Partho Mishra as VP of Engineering to continue rapid pace of innovation

April 2, 2018

Cumulus Networks and Vodafone Complete Successful Trial of Telecom Infra Project’s Voyager to Transform Boundaries of Optical Networks

The trial represents a major step forward in proving the readiness and possibilities of Voyager to disrupt the telecommunications industry for a mobile-first world

March 13, 2018

Cumulus Networks Announces Early Access of Cumulus Linux for Voyager with ADVA

Vodafone, NYSERNet, Internet2, GRnet and CESNET will be first to trial Voyager, expanding their coverage areas through scalable, flexible optical transport networks

January 23, 2018

Cumulus Networks Raises $43M in Series D Financing to Accelerate Global Adoption of Open Networking

Investment to fund go-to-market, international expansion and build on momentum with Fortune 500 enterprises and service providers

November 8, 2017

Cumulus Networks and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) collaborate on open optical routing platform

November 5, 2017

Cumulus Networks Accelerates Web-Scale Adoption for OpenStack Environments

Cumulus in the Cloud is a virtual test environment for all steps from bare metal onwards, for a fully functioning OpenStack environment

October 26, 2017

Cumulus Networks Inducted into JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation

Leading Provider of Web-Scale Networking Software Recognized for Disruptive Technology Innovation and Business Impact of its Solution

August 23, 2017

Cumulus Networks Arms Customers for Networking in the Container Era with Host Pack and Cumulus in the Cloud

Brings the host to the network, enabling fabric-wide network visibility and connectivity for containers

July 6, 2017

Cumulus Networks Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking

Positioned as ‘Visionary’ for the first time and Open Networking is a key buying criteria for majority of enterprises

June 6, 2017

Cumulus Networks Launches NetQ, a Telemetry-Based Fabric Validation System — Evolving Beyond its Network OS

NetQ increases network agility, improves uptime, and reduces management complexity with the widest surface area across the data center network from host to switch

March 21, 2017

Cumulus Networks Announces Support for Open19 Initiative

Cumulus Networks brings Cumulus Linux to Open19; reinforces leadership amidindustry move to disaggregation

January 24, 2017

Backpack Modular Switch Platform Available to Order from Cumulus Networks

Facebook’s latest open hardware platform, Backpack, runs Cumulus Linux network OS to unlock web-scale networking for enterprises

January 19, 2017

Cumulus Networks Introduces Its First Turn-Key Appliance, Cumulus Express, to Accelerate Web-Scale Networking on Heels of Rapid Growth in 2016

Fortune 500 adoption of web-scale IT drove 200%+ increase in bookings year over year

December 20, 2016

Cumulus Networks Accelerates Move to Web-Scale Networking with Flexible, Scalable Functionality

Cumulus Linux 3.2 simplifies on-ramp for engineers with traditional skillsets

November 17, 2016

Cumulus Networks Simplifies Web-Scale Networking with a Next Gen Network Command Line Utility

New interface opens up the benefits of Cumulus Linux to all network operators

October 21, 2016

Broadcom Sets Standard for Network Analytics with BroadView Instrumentation Software

Industry's First Platform-Agnostic Suite Delivers Greater Visibility into Cloud Networks

August 10, 2016

Cumulus Networks Expands Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires

Company Appoints Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Sales during period of hypergrowth

August 1, 2016

Medallia Deploys Mellanox Ethernet Solutions to Supercharge Real-Time Analytics and Achieve the Efficiency of Hyperscale Infrastructure

Medallia Future-Proofs Data Center Leveraging Next Generation 100GbE Open Composable Network Solutions

July 14, 2016

Penguin Computing Announces New Arctica Line of Ethernet Switches for Software Defined Datacenters

Through Penguin’s Arctica network switches customers can take advantage of Cumulus Linux while enjoying Penguin Computing's enterprise level support and maintenance for switch hardware and software.

June 23, 2016

Media Advisory: Cumulus Networks Extends Leaf-Spine Architectures with Routing On The Host

Cumulus enhanced Quagga empowers modern data-center network design for customers including Campaign Monitor, SWITCH, and Shapeways, Inc.

May 31, 2016

Media Advisory: Cumulus Linux 3.0 Ushers Open Networking Into the 100G Era

Cumulus Networks delivers the first multi-platform, multi-silicon 100G Open Networking solution

May 25, 2016

Red Hat Debuts Ansible 2.1, with Network Automation, Containers, Microsoft Windows, and Azure

Newest release of open source IT automation framework brings 40 newly integrated modules for DevOps teams and IT administrators

April 14, 2016

Cumulus Networks Collaborates with Dell and Red Hat to Simplify 300+ Node OpenStack Pod

Collaboration demonstrates the power of Linux by deploying Cumulus Linux and Red Hat OpenStack Platform on a 300+ node pod built with Dell servers and switches

March 21, 2016

Cumulus Networks Appoints Josh Leslie as Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder JR Rivers taps Leslie to lead company’s next phase of growth; Rivers to serve as Chief Technology Officer

March 9, 2016

Edgecore Networks Brings Open Networking to the Access Network for Enterprises and Managed Service Providers

Contributes to OCP the Designs of Industry’s First Open WiFi Access Points
and Open Access Switches Supporting Disaggregated Software Options

March 9, 2016

Edgecore Networks Contributes Design of Industry’s Highest Bandwidth Modular Switch Platform to Open Compute Project

256-Port and 512-Port 100GbE Open Modular Platform Lowers Costs for Data Center and Telecom Networks with the Flexibility of Open Networking

March 7, 2016

Media Advisory: Cumulus Networks to Demonstrate Interoperability Capabilities at OCP Summit 2016

Cumulus Networks the first and only Open Networking provider on the InterOperability Lab Integrators list

March 7, 2016

Mellanox Adds Cumulus Linux Support for Ethernet Switches

Extends Network Operating System Choices for 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 Gb/s Open Ethernet Platforms

March 3, 2016

Avnet signs European Linux Software Defined Networking Deal

Avnet has announced a pan-EMEA distribution agreement with Cumulus Networks to offer “the industry’s first true full-featured Linux OS for networks” to customers and partners.

November 20, 2015

Akanda, Aptira and Cumulus Networks' Partnership Gives OpenStack Cloud Operators Unprecedented Networking Simplification, Flexibility and Agility

Aptira Becomes the First OpenStack Systems Integrator to Bring Akanda's Powerful Open Source Network Orchestration Platform to Data Centers Around the World

August 31, 2015

Cumulus Networks Collaborates with VMware on VMware EVO SDDC

VMware becomes latest Tier 1 IT provider to bring Cumulus Linux to enterprise data centers around the world

August 4, 2015

Cumulus Networks Releases Cumulus VX to Accelerate Open Networking Adoption

Cumulus VX provides cloud and networking experts a zero cost way to test open networking environments with the support of the Cumulus Networks Open Networking Community

May 13, 2015

Media Advisory: Cumulus Networks Demonstrates Universal Network Underlay for OpenStack Architectures

A range of OpenStack solution providers will highlight Cumulus®Linux®, the OS for open networking, during the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver next week.

April 27, 2015

Cumulus Networks Open Networking Initiatives Expand with Supermicro Partnership

Cumulus Networks Customer Choice Expands to 25 Platforms with Announcement of Supermicro Cumulus® Linux® Ready Top-of-Rack Switches

April 27, 2015

Cumulus Networks Extends Power of Linux Across Entire Rack with New Cumulus Rack Management Platform Product

New OS Extends Power of Linux to Out-of-Band Management Switches, Gives Customers One Common Interface and Operational Model for Data Center Networking

April 9, 2015

Puppet Labs, Cumulus Networks and Dell Partner to Extend SDN to More Devices in the Data Center

Partnership Enables Stronger DevOps Practices so Companies Can Deploy Applications Faster While Reducing Errors

March 25, 2015

Maxta Hyper-convergence Solution with Cumulus Networks Reduces Data Center Complexity and Cost

Next Generation Architecture Delivers Hyper-convergence Enabling an Entire Data Center Built Exclusively on Industry Standard Hardware

March 9, 2015

Cumulus Networks® Extends Server Standard to Networking for Radically Faster Integration of Switches with Network OS

Extension of ACPI standard to bare metal switches accelerates platform availability for more open networking use cases

February 19, 2015

HP Launches New Open Network Switches for Web Scale Cloud Data Centers

Partnerships with Accton Technology and Cumulus Networks provide customers with more choice, network agility and superior scalability

January 15, 2015

Media Advisory: Accelerating Open Networking Adoption with Help from Cumulus Networks Experts

Cumulus Networks now offers a range of training, consulting and support services to organizations who are adopting Cumulus® Linux®

December 11, 2014

Dell Expands Open Networking Initiative

Dell Expands Open Networking Initiative – Adds Midokura as Network Virtualization Overlay Option for OpenStack

November 4, 2014

Cumulus Networks Accelerates IT Innovation with the Technology Ecosystem Partner (TEP) Program

Networking industry adopts loosely coupled ecosystem solutions over brittle and overpriced single-vendor stacks

October 14, 2014

Cumulus Networks Accelerates Adoption of Open Networking in the Enterprise

New network architectures, validated designs and an expanded ecosystem make it easier for companies of all sizes to consume open networking

September 3, 2014

Edge-Core Networks Accelerates Open Networking with Integrated Cumulus® Linux® Worldwide

Turnkey Edge-Core solution simplifies customer procurement, deployment and support

August 25, 2014

Dell and VMware Collaborate to Deliver VMware NSX Solutions for the Software-Defined Data Center Enabled by Open Networking

Dell, VMware and Cumulus Networks solution offers large enterprises flexibility and choice in data center networking

August 19, 2014

Cumulus Networks Now Powers Over 1 Million Switch Ports Worldwide

Greater flexibility to implement solutions that work for enterprises drives growth among customers across varied industries and geographies

August 5, 2014

Cumulus Linux Network OS Brings Modern Data Center Networking to the Enterprise

Cumulus® Linux® 2.2 brings greater flexibility, simplified operations and end-to-end resiliency along with a new hardware architecture and new ecosystem solutions

June 4, 2014

Cumulus Networks Expands Channel Partner Footprint to Eight Countries in Three Major Geographies

Organizations turn to Cumulus Networks™ to extend a modern networking stack to their users at global scale

May 14, 2014

Gartner Names Cumulus Networks® A Cool Vendor

Report recognizes innovative vendors who offer novel approaches to solving longstanding network challenges

March 24, 2014

IXLeeds Selects Cumulus® Linux® Operating System to Power Upgraded Internet Exchange Point

Open ecosystem where businesses can choose between various industry standard networking gear, network operating systems and network applications gains further industry support

March 20, 2014

Midokura Announces Partnership with Cumulus Networks®

Joint Solution to Offer Customers Easy Management of Virtualized and Non-Virtualized Workloads

February 26, 2014

Cumulus Networks® Teams With Hammer To Extend Bare Metal Networking To Europe

* Partnership will accelerate European expansion for Linux networking pioneer
* Cumulus Networks to live demo at Hammer’s stand 427 at Cloud Expo 2014 Summit, London

January 28, 2014

Cumulus Networks® Announces Partnership And Distribution Agreement With Dell

Signals networking industry shift towards complete disaggregation of hardware & software, gives customers flexibility to choose network technology that best fits their business needs

January 21, 2014

AMAX's CloudMax™ ON-7448 Open Switch Now Integrated With AMAX OCP & ClusterMax™ Solutions

The CloudMax ON-7448 Open Switch is powered by Cumulus Linux, an open and extensible true Linux operating system

November 14, 2013

Media Advisory – Cumulus Networks to Demo Zero Touch Provisioning at IEEE SuperComputing 2013

Cumulus Networks is participating with a select group of partners next week at Super Computing (SC 13) where the company will demonstrate the latest approaches, tips and tricks for advanced networking.

November 12, 2013

Cumulus Networks Unveils Open Standard Platform for Network Operating Systems

Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) supported by networking and communications silicon vendors is contributed to the Open Compute Foundation

October 29, 2013

Cumulus Networks® Tackles Next Generation Platforms And Network Architecture With Cumulus® Linux® 2.0

Support for Broadcom® StrataXGS® Trident II Switch SoC Enables Flexible Scale, High-Density Fabrics, Scalable Multi-Tenancy and Expansive Breadth of Platform Choices

August 26, 2013

Cumulus Networks® Teams With VMware To Accelerate Widespread Adoption Of Network Virtualization

Cumulus Networks provides the ideal underlay physical network infrastructure for network virtualization, combining wire-rate gateway services with low cost, standard-based, high capacity IP fabrics