Notes from: 第26回 FreeBSD勉強会 | FreeBSD Benkyokai

Thank you to everyone who attended, I really appreciated this warm reception in Tokyo! Everyone was exremely patient to listen to me present in english. Also, a special thanks to Daichi GOTO, for organizing the event!

fellowship
Post-presentation drinks and yakitori!

Here are references, including presentation materials:

pfSense.org

Additional links regarding Open Networking Hardware

Intel "Wish-ware" spec, from the OpenCompute (facebook) project: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/onp-switch-reference-design-product-brief.pdf
(cached version)

URL dump of related press/pr articles, some fluffier than others, but all on the right track IMHO...

http://www.opencompute.org/
http://www.opencompute.org/projects/networking/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/cisco-threatening-open-switch-coming-from-facebook-intel-and-broadcom/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/facebook-aims-to-knock-cisco-down-a-peg-with-open-network-hardware/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/111213-facebook-open-compute-project-picks-275862.html
http://gigaom.com/2013/11/11/facebooks-hardware-vp-says-were-very-close-to-open-source-switches/
http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/news/networking/open-compute-project-considers-switch-sp/240163982

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And even broader, the new buzzword, "Software Defined Networking", (SDN):
http://gigaom.com/2013/01/30/sdn-is-not-openflow-but-openflow-is-a-real-disruption/

Just sounds a lot like a UNIX box with lots of nics. Hrm, if Wikipedia says "Software Defined Networking" is real, it must be, right? :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow

But whatever, if this SDN vocabulary is what it takes to drag networking out of the dark ages, I'm all for it :)

https://www.opennetworking.org/sdn-resources/onf-products-listing