Dent is a proposed operating system for switches, which are pieces of hardware used to route data around networks, usually within companies or between companies and the internet.
The market has traditionally been dominated by big companies like Broadcom, which provides a lot of the underlying silicon chips, and Cisco, which sells finished assembled product. By creating an open-source alternative -- meaning that anybody can access and contribute to the code underlying the software -- Amazon and its partners in the deal could loosen these companies' control and achieve lower prices.
There are no signs that Amazon intends to sell companies switches or other hardware, nor that it will design its own chips for that purpose. Rather, the company is contributing to an operating system that can run on the chips embedded in networking gear. Other companies that run computing and networking infrastructure will then be able to take advantage of it.
Although Amazon is experienced running networking hardware at scale in its data centers for the market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud business, Dent is designed for switches that work at lower speeds than the ones found in public cloud data centers, and the Dent statement doesn't say anything about AWS.
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