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  SONiC Network Operating System (NOS) Support vs SONiC Network Operation (NetOps) Support Demystified SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) Network Operating System (NOS) has seen a huge surge in its popularity and adoption in the last few years. Originally developed by Microsoft and subsequently open-sourced, it offers a versatile, modular, and hardware-agnostic platform that decouples the switching hardware from the software running on it. This allows the much-needed flexibility in networking hardware choices for the enterprise. The openness of SONiC and the customer demands have prompted a majority of hardware vendors to support SONiC on their switches. While SONiC has become a leading choice for data center networking, and major hardware vendors are supporting it on their platforms, this disaggregation is leading to a fair bit of chaos as organizations deploy hardware sourced from multiple vendors with different flavors of SONiC running on them. US Top 5 Clouds SON...

  AI Networking Fabric with SONiC: The Future In recent times, the conversation around AI infrastructure has intensified, with leading companies globally gearing up to enhance their AI clusters in anticipation of the skyrocketing AI traffic in the years to come. Amidst this surge, the dialogue often turns towards the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of AI workloads, challenging the traditional reliance on public clouds due to total cost of ownership (TCO) considerations. Why is SONiC becoming the preferred choice for AI networking fabric? As a leader at Aviz, I’ve gained insights into the strategies of switching vendors and how customers respond to them. Generally, customers aim to achieve the following high-level goals, and SONiC aligns perfectly with these objectives: Open Choices, Control, and Cost Savings: SONiC brings the 3Cs : Choices, Control, and Cost Savings. It breaks free from vendor lock-in, empowers network control (akin to Linux for computing), and offers significant...