Cisco's former $6 billion dollar man favors bare metal switching

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Earlier today William Choe, the Senior Director of Products and Alliances for Linux networking software vendor, Cumulus Networks, gave the following presentation as shown below.
 

Keep in mind that Choe was the former senior director of marketing for Cisco, where he grew Catalyst fixed configuration switching sales to $6 billion per year:
 

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