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by asuffield 3740 days ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and I'm oncall for this service.)

No.

Edit: expanding on this a little, it's not something that's been released so we can't talk about it. I don't think I can comment on "illumin8"s proposals other than to say that I'm pretty sure they don't work here.

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Google's exact ToR (top of rack) switch code isn't available, but you can buy a switch from any number of network gear vendors (Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, HP, etc), that can do VXLAN encapsulation and send the traffic over a leaf/spine network that covers thousands of racks.
I can't imagine Google is building clusters at such an alarming rate that it would justify manufacturing its own silicon for edge deployment, which suggests whatever commodity silicon is in the magic box can probably be found in a variety of vendor equipment wrapped in OpenFlow or similar