Amazon Will Become A Network Vendor
About: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), ANET, CSCO, Includes: JNPR
by: Hervé Blandin
Summary
Amazon will start competing directly with traditional network vendors like Cisco in the cloud data centers.
The online retailer and public cloud provider will sell white-box switches to business customers.
Although this looks like a big news, the threat for competitors, especially Cisco, is limited.
The market is overreacting and this could create an opportunity to buy Cisco.
A news on Seeking Alpha cited today an article from theinformation.com about Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) planning to sell its own network switches to business customers, competing directly with Cisco (CSCO), Arista (