Juniper, Apstra, Big Switch Join Team Sonic

Juniper Networks, Alibaba, Big Switch, Apstra, and Dell EMC were among the vendors touting their SONiC support at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit. Microsoft developed the open source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) along with Arista, Broadcom, Dell, and Mellanox, before contributing it to OCP in 2016. SONiC uses the Linux kernel, and it allows cloud operators to share the same software stack across multiple switch vendors’ hardware. It can also run on various switching platforms via the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) specification, which Microsoft open sourced to OCP in 2015. Today, 68 hardware platforms currently support SONiC, said David A. Maltz, who leads Microsoft Azure’s Physical Network team, during a keynote at last week’s OCP Global Summit. Looking forward, Microsoft plans to run all of its data centers on SONiC and extend it to support its management network, WAN, and even gaming, Maltz added. “We’ve got to go all in on SONiC,” he said. Also during his keynote: a video detailed how Alibaba built a customized network operating system using SONiC as the foundation for its cloud data centers. Dell EMC’s Tom Burns, vice president and general manager of networking, said his company recently started supporting SONiC on Dell EMC infrastructure for all customers beyond just Microsoft customers. “SONiC enables new capabilities around open networking…and gives our customers more flexibility,” he said in a video. And later that day Facebook said its two new open source data center switches, Minipack and a second one co-developed with Arista, both support SONiC. More SONiC Support: Juniper, which has long been a proponent of open source and disaggregation, on Friday announced native integration of its platforms with SONiC. “At Juniper Networks, we recognize how important open programmability is to our customers, already evidenced in our support of OpenConfig, Open/R and P4,” said Manoj Leelanivas, chief product officer at Juniper Networks in a statement. Native SONiC integration continues this support, he added.

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AI and Big Data Expo North America announces leading Speaker Lineup

TechEx Events | March 07, 2024

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