Facebook Just Created Some Fancy New Networking Technology

Facebook has made it clear that it wants to change the data center hardware market.

On Tuesday, the social networking giant said it built a type of networking hardware that can be used to funnel data quickly across long distances and multiple data centers. Facebook (FB, -0.01%) claims that its new Voyager device is the industry's "first 'white box' transponder and routing solution," according to a corporate blog post.

A white-box device refers to a generic piece of data center hardware that companies can use to install and run custom, free and open source software. The idea is that these white-box products are cheaper than comparable devices sold by big enterprise companies like Cisco (CSCO, +2.38%) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE, -0.21%), and give users the option to use more flexible, free software that can be customized to their specific networking, storage, or related data center tasks.Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.

Facebook, along with other big web companies like Google(GOOG, +0.39%), has been a big supporter of this type of data center infrastructure, and created an industry consortium called the Open Compute Project, which oversees data center hardware designs and makes them available for other companies to use and build their own gear from.

The company said it would contribute the designs of its new Voyager product to its recently created Telco Infra Project, a similar initiative to the Open Compute Project, except tailored to match the specific needs of telecommunication companies.

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Parikh wrote that Facebook has tested Voyager with several other companies, including data center company Equinix (EQIX, -1.99%) and South Africa-based mobile telecommunications company MTN.