Since the trip around the world, John Chambers and milled Chuck Robbins, Cisco has fallen a further preliminary fingers in the dangerous waters of the switching bare metal, the investment in software provider 6Wind Paris.
6WIND key sacrifices 6WINDGate processing software packages was launched on the market for bare metal to life. The company checked a bag full of competitors Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Hitachi, HP, LG-Ericsson, NEC and Nokia.
Software Defined Network (SDN) and network virtualization function (NFV) first shipped product supplier in 2007. The company has also built VM-based accelerator, routing and IPSec products based on their packet processor.
The investment, part of a broader strategy to invest in the French market strategy, looks like a small change in the attitude of Cisco for the white box market. In May, the outgoing CEO John Chambers said the company already had dealt with the threat white box.
The agreement was announced during the roadshow Chuck-and-camera passes through France, with the pair to meet with President Francois Hollande to concretize in the boot sector of the country, the details of a $ 100 million investment He announced in of February.
During the tour, Cisco also announced a partnership with the Internet of Things French company Actility specialists from machine to machine.
While officially bare metal is an abomination to the Cisco exerted by customers such as Verizon and AT & T significant gravitational pull into a new orbit. Cisco has been marked in the transition SDN Verizon and the strategy of "Domain 2.0" AT & T virtualize 75 percent of their network architecture in 2020.
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