Celestica’s New Ethernet Switches Help Drive Open Networking, The Canadian Business Journal

TORONTO, OCTOBER 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Celestica Inc. (TSX: CLS) (NYSE: CLS), a leader in design, manufacturing and supply chain solutions for the world’s most innovative enterprises, today launched the DS1000 high-performance Gigabit Ethernet Layer 3 switch. , open the network switch. The company also announced the release of the DS1000 into the open source domain as its first contribution to the OCP Enterprise Connectivity Solutions (ECS) group. 2022 Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit.

The DS1000 switch is Celestica’s latest offering. Hardware Platform Solution (HPS) A portfolio of leading-edge storage, compute, networking, and web-scale solutions. It features 48 x 10/100/1000Mbps RJ45 ports and 8 he SFP+ ports inside a 1U form factor for data center and enterprise-class access deployments. It is based on the Broadcom Trident-3 chipset and features an onboard 4-core Intel-based CPU module.

The DS1000 is optimized for:

• 1GbE Data Center Top of Rack
• Enterprise Edge/Access
• Management switch usage example
• Open and third-party network operating systems

A longtime member of the OCP community, Celestica Open Network Installation Environment (ONIE) Supports open and third-party network operating systems using the DS1000 installer.

Bijan Nowroozi, chief technology officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation, said: Powerful and compact, it is scalable to the data center and edge and uses OCP’s ONIE. It is an elegant interface to the platform hardware and enables the booting of open and third party network operating systems. Celestica continues to demonstrate its commitment to OCP and the open source networking community, helping OCP drive innovation and open networking in the enterprise. ”

Gavin Cato, Head of Hardware Platform Solutions and CTO, Celestica, said: “As a key contributor to this rapidly growing global community, Celestica collaborated with leaders in the open source environment to develop the groundbreaking design used in the OCP’s early platform. We continue to innovate and contribute to empowering the open source community.”

Visit Celestica during the OCP Summit at Booth C8 to meet engineers and industry experts and see the company’s latest advancements in 800G switching and optical technology.

In addition, Celestica senior director Jeff Catlin said,Open networking at the enterprise edgeWednesday, October 19, 10:20 am (SJCC – Concourse Level – 210CG).

About Celestica
Celestica enables the world’s best brands. Through our proven customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment and energy to provide solutions to their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platforms, and supply his chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight to every stage of product development, from the drawing board to full-scale production and aftermarket service. With our talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, we envision, develop and deliver a better future together with our customers.

For more information about Celestica, please visit www.celestica.com. www.celestica.comThe Company’s securities report can be accessed at the following URL. www.sedar.com When www.sec.gov.

About the Open Compute Project Foundation
The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware to rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, around, and around networking equipment, general-purpose servers, and GPU servers in data centers. was launched in 2011 with , storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack design. OCP’s collaboration model has been applied beyond the data center, contributing to the advancement of the telecom industry and his EDGE infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.opencompute.org.

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