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How PicOS® Works

PicOS® fully supports Broadcom switches and offers software with essential Layer 2/3 protocols and telemetry APIs to enhance network performance and management. In addition, with automatic configuration and central management through AmpCon™, PicOS® enables more resilient and efficient network operations at a lower cost for campus and data center networks. For an even more hands-on experience, you can try PicOS® for free through the PicOS-V platform at your own pace with no commitments.

Why Choose PicOS®?

  • Complete Standardization

    Support standard protocols for backward compatibility with your current network, enabling upgrade at whatever speed IT budgets allow.

  • AmpCon™ for Automation

    Write Ansible playbooks to create and schedule customized workflows with easy-to-read reports, achieve automated configuration.

  • Full Support for Broadcom

    Equipped with Broadcom chips, PicOS® switches enhance network performance and reliability in campuses and data centers.

  • High Reliability and Scalability

    Switches running PicOS® with both EVPN-VXLAN and MLAG can facilitate the establishment of networks that are nimbler, secure, scalable.

  • Reduced OpEx

    Non-technical staff to deploy hundreds or thousands of switches at once using GUI-based commands, resulting in cost savings of 35% to 40%.

  • Network Security

    PicOS® interoperates with solutions from major vendors and enables zero-trust security for campus access layers with integrated leading NAC Policy Manager.

What Makes PicOS® Unique?

Discover how PicOS® delivers agile, secure, and scalable networking for data centers and campuses.

What You Get with PicOS®

Key Features

  • EVPN-VXLAN: Construct a virtual Layer 2 network and create virtual tunnels over IP networks, enabling cross-regional and cross-data center data migration and flexible resource allocation.
  • Security: Ensure secure network management with support for ACL, RADIUS, TACACS+, and DHCP Snooping.
  • MLAG: Provide physical switch-level redundancy, avoid single-point failure, and maximize overall utilization of the total available bandwidth in your Ethernet fabric.
  • Spanning Tree: Support a suite of Spanning Tree Protocols, vital for preventing network loops and ensuring the efficient delivery of Ethernet frames in a Layer-2 network, including STP, MSTP, RSTP, and PVST.
  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP): Run over the data link layer which allows two different devices to gather hardware and protocol information about neighboring devices that is useful in troubleshooting the network.
  • Full-featured 802.1x: Enhance security and enable seamless integration across multi-vendor devices for the enterprise access layer catering to IoT, authorized users, and guests.
  • Voice VLAN: Improve voice traffic transmission priority and guarantee voice quality by assigning voice traffic to a dedicated VLAN without competing with other traffic.
  • Zero-Touch Provisioning: With AmpCon™'s Push-Button Deployment capability, AmpCon™ radically simplifies installation and configuration of large numbers of remote switches running the PicOS® network operating system.

Standard Technology

  • CrossFlow™ Dual Control Plane Technology:  Improve OpenFlow integration, scale and management (Layer-2 / Layer-3 and OpenFlow running simultaneously on switch ports).
  • Native Security: From OpenSSH to authentication, PicOS® keeps your switches secure.
  • Software Driven: Our software writes directly to the sil'icon' through a software abstraction layer, giving you a software-driven and hardware-accelerated approach.

Explore PicOS® Switches

FS PicOS® switches, equipped with Broadcom chipsets, are managed by the AmpCon™ management platform, delivering high-performance, scalable networking solutions for data centers and campuses. Stay tuned as we continue to expand our range of compatible models.

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Prefer to try before you buy? Try PicOS® for free on the PicOS-V virtual platform.