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Microsoft demonstrates its Linux-based Azure Cloud Switch operating system

September 21, 2015

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Microsoft has built a Linux-based cross-platform operating system for running network devices like datacenter switches.

Company officials provided information about that operating system, known as Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), in a September 17 blog post. Microsoft also demonstrated ACS at the recent SIGCOMM conference in August, showing off the work it is doing around providing a standards-based way to write to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are inside devices like data-center switches.

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