Discover the state of Enterprise Linux for networking in 2026. Compare RHEL 10, SLES 16, and Ubuntu alongside NOS leaders like SONiC and Nvidia Cumulus.

Old school datacenter architectures have what's known as a "high oversubscription ratio" where the bandwidth through the core of the network is a tiny fraction of the aggregate bandwidth from the ...

Now, 15 years later, the Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression consortium ever, is still protecting Linux and open-source software from patent attacks and patent trolls.

The Open networking foundation (ONF) is merging its portfolio of open source networking projects into the Linux Foundation (LF) as independent projects. Founded in 2011, ONF has been the driving force ...

Juniper Networks, the recently acquired Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) firm, joined a handful of firms that recently pledged to support the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) ...

92% of organizations view open source networking as critical to their future infrastructure plans. Projects like SONiC enable hardware independence, helping organizations achieve up to 50% reduction ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...