private industry technology founded 2010 headquarters santa clara california united states key people ceo douglas murray ; 1 founder kyle forster ; cfo wendell laidley products big monitoring fabric ; big cloud fabric number of employees 100 250 2 website www.bigswitch.com big switch networks is a data center networking company headquartered in santa clara california usa . the company designs develops and sells bare metal software based networking fabrics . currently the company has two products big monitoring fabric and big cloud fabric . these products are designed for the enterprise service provider and private data center environments . contents 1 company 2 product architecture 3 key technologies 4 products 5 open source projects 6 references 6.1 in line references 6.2 general references company edit big switch networks was founded in 2010 by kyle forster and guido appenzeller . as of january 2016 the company has raised 94.3 m in venture funding . 3 douglas murray a former juniper networks and sun microsystems executive joined the company as ceo in 2013 . 4 customers include verizon 5 intuit clemson u2 cloud and the us federal government . investors include index ventures khosla ventures morgenthaler ventures redpoint ventures silver lake msd capital goldman sachs and intel capital . product architecture edit bare metal sdn design big switch networks products consists of a centralized product specific controller managing a network of bare metal ethernet switches . the controller the managed switches and the various links connecting to them form the network fabric . the company designs both the software for the centralized controller that runs on industry standard servers and the operating system that runs on the bare metal ethernet switches . the controller software and the switch os are tightly integrated . 6 user interface the entire network fabric can be set up and managed centrally from the controller and users need not directly configure individual switches . users can programmatically interact with the centralized controller through a rest api . in addition the company provides a gui and a cli for the controller that are built on top of the rest api . once configured the controller computes and pushes down an appropriate individual configurations for each switch . key technologies edit switch light os an operating system for physical bare metal ethernet switches based on open network linux onl an open source effort within the open compute project . 7 switch light vswitch a user space software module for kvm based virtual switches that adds advanced functionality and improved performance on top of the open vswitch kernel . products edit big monitoring fabric a monitoring fabric consisting of a centralized big tap controller software and bare metal ethernet switches running the switch light os . the centralized big tap controller compiles user defined policies into highly optimized flows which are then programmed into the switches . 8 big cloud fabric a switching fabric where a single controller manages policy forwarding across both a physical network fabric and the virtual hypervisor vswitches connected to it . this product is designed for data centers . 9 the product is available in two editions 1 p clos edition a leaf and spine physical clos fabric controlled by the big cloud fabric sdn controller and 2 unified p v clos edition a leaf spine and vswitch clos fabric controlled by the big cloud fabric sdn controller open source projects edit in addition big switch also sponsors and participates in several open source projects project floodlight 10 project indigo 11 open compute project including submissions to onl . references edit in line references edit big switch networks team big switch linkedin profile company profile . crunchbase . press release . big switch networks . company release . big monitoring fabric . big switch networks . switch light . big switch networks . big monitoring fabric . big switch networks . 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