Look out, Cisco: Major telcos join Facebook's open hardware push.

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The article warns information technology firms Cisco and Juniper about the collaboration of telecommunications companies including Verizon and AT&T with social media networking site Facebook on the Open Compute Project (OCP) that aims to build low-cost computing hardware. It discusses the scope of OCP and its focus on cloud providers and enterprises, and the challenges service providers face such as increasing bandwidth needs and movement of more enterprise workloads into public clouds.