Delve into SONiC’s updates at OCP Summit 2024. This session highlights the past year’s pivotal software and community advancements- the breakthrough features of SONiC 202405 and 202411- and the insights on AI networking that are redefining Ethernet networking. Join us to explore the community’s growth and the full potential of open- innovative networking.
Yanzhao Zhang is the SONiC PM manager in Microsoft, driving the public SONiC community and managing SONiC product roadmap & adoption on Azure cloud. Yanzhao holds a bachelor and master’s degree in computer science and has more than 20 years of software development and management... Read More →
Large-scale AI models impose stringent performance- reliability- and management requirements on underlying networking infrastructure. Network operating systems like SONiC must evolve to meet these demands effectively. This talk identifies the challenges posed by AI workloads- discusses strategic pathways for enhancing SONiC to address these challenges- and showcases specific technologies as exemplars of these advancements. Join us to explore how SONiC can evolve to support robust network infrastructure for AI workloads- ensuring scalability- efficiency- and seamless integration with modern AI-driven applications.
This presentation will offer a glimpse into the latest developments within the SONiC AI Working Group. We will cover progress in key areas: Network fabrics for AI- Routing and network design- Congestion Control and Load Balancing. Attendees will gain insights into the challenges and solutions related to SONiC's support for AI clusters- the already identified gaps and the next steps on the agenda. \nJoin us to explore how SONiC is evolving to meet the demands of high-performance- low-latency network architectures tailored for AI clusters and GPU-accelerated workloads
Senthil Kumar Ganesan is from Dell Technologies working as a Tech Staff. Senthil has specialized in the field of Networking OS Development for 15+ years and has led many network stack development for various OS. He has contributed various open source projects such as Open Switch... Read More →
Senthil Kumar Ganesan is from Dell Technologies working as a Tech Staff. Senthil has specialized in the field of Networking OS Development for 15+ years and has led many network stack development for various OS. He has contributed various open source projects such as Open Switch... Read More →
This presentation unveils a new capability of SONiC- positioning it as a powerful and effective AI/ML networking test appliance. \nSONiC has demonstrated remarkable adaptability across various network usecases. This presentation will illustrate how SONiC can be harnessed effectively to test RoCEv2 performance between endpoints. \nBy leveraging robust features like ACL UDF for deep packet lookup actions through ASIC- SONiC can be used to test AI/ML server NIC performance- specifically in handling network abnormalities such as out-of-order placement- congestion control- PFC- and ECN at line rate. In this context- SONiC serves as a powerful network fault injection appliance. \nMoreover- with third-party container support in SONiC- the integration of a packet editing tool as SONiC container extends the solution into a comprehensive payload packet editing device for slow path fault injection- further enhancing its capabilities.
Adam Yeung is a seasoned network software expert with nine US patents to his name. Adam is the SONiC Open Source engineering lead at Broadcom, he also manages an engineering team responsible for design and development of advanced networking features, including EVPN VxLAN, multi-chassis... Read More →
AI infrastructure requirements are multiplying by the day. More and more companies are turning away from expensive proprietary systems and adopting SONiC, the 100% open-source, hardware-agnostic network operating system for their next-generation data centers. This session will discuss SONiC as the perfect vector to revolutionize the future of AI. SONiC escapes the constrictions of vendor-lock in while providing all the networking functionality the data center requires. We will demonstrate NVIDIA’s full commitment to SONiC as the leading contributor to the SONiC project, emphasizing NVIDIA’s dedication to provide open networking for everyone.
We will also demonstrate how to deploy and use SONiC within NVIDIA Air, our cloud-hosted environment for hosting digital twins and testing infrastructure. SONiC on NVIDIA Air offers a hassle-free, preconfigured lab for trying out SONiC instantly at no cost.
The SONiC Unified Management Framework (UMF) provides a solution for network operators to achieve real-time visibility and control over their networks. Through the integration of gNMI and OpenConfig data models- UMF enables streaming telemetry capabilities through on change notifications which is superior to polling. This streaming telemetry data provides valuable insights into network health- performance- and utilization. A wide range of telemetry data types- including metrics- events- and alarms are/can be supported. Metrics provide quantitative measurements of network performance- such as CPU utilization- memory usage- etc. Events represent significant occurrences in the network- such as link failures- switch reboots- etc. Alarms indicate critical conditions that require immediate attention- such as high temperature readings or power supply failures. This presentation also includes specific examples of how these capabilities improved speed of mitigation of network failures.
PhoenixWing initiative has been kicked off at the 4th Networking Open Source Technology Ecological Conference in Beijing- China- on May 25th 2024. Representatives including Alibaba- Cisco- Broadcom- Accton- Inspur- Huaqin and Ruijie- jointly announced the official kick-off of this initiative.\nIt is the first community achievement from the SONiC Routing WG. The short term goal is to verify the deployment readiness of SRv6 solutions via using the SONiC 202411 release on participated hardware devices. The enhancements not only contain SRv6 features such as SRv6 VPN and SRv6 Policy with BFD offload- but also include infra optimizations in terms of FPM channel optimization- BGP loading acceleration and prefix-independence convergence. The long term goal for this initative is to add SRv6 into SONiC interop lab and create a test suite which could help on SRv6 adoption. \nThis presentation would give an introduction on this initiative and current progress towards the short term goal.
This talk presents a refined methodology for Network Operating System code development that leverages reference virtual hardware. This approach has been instrumental in the evolution of IOS-XR and the recent advancements in SONIC. We discuss the comparative benefits and constraints of this method against abstract platform NOS simulators and introduce SONIC-NGDP-VS, a virtual switch/router that marries the agility of an open platform with the robust capabilities of Cisco’s Silicon One dataplane.
For the Silicon One based Cisco 8000 routers, we have developed a suite of virtual platforms capable of running IOS-XR and SONIC. These range from simulations of compact systems to large-scale platforms with dual router processors. These models are used internally for development and test, and also provided to customers.
To support the SONIC community, we have developed a new disaggregated solution that allows users to integrate SONIC source with our proven SAI/SDK and NPU models to construct their own Silicon One based SONIC-VS. This approach ensures that development against a commercial-grade SAI/SDK/dataplane increases the probability of seamless functionality on physical hardware.
APRESIA is a Japanese distributor of open networking products such as white box switch, Network OS, network orchestrator and so on. KDDI, NTT PC Communications and some other customers have deployed SONiC in commercial network and we've supported their activities. In this presentation, I'd like to share takeaways of SONiC commercial deployments and operations: - use case: Management network, AI/ML network - requirements: Change of interface name, uplink tracking, ZTP, - network design: Interoperability of EVPN/VXLAN with server NIC teaming and IPv6 - trouble shooting: Analysis of sairedis debug log for EVPN routing issue.
Delve into the collaborative efforts of Broadcom and Cisco in implementing EVPN-VxLAN multi-homing on the SONiC platform. This presentation will unveil the architecture and the implementation details that enables robust- scalable- and redundant network topologies. Attendees will gain insights into the practical challenges and solutions encountered during this integration.
As the lead architect of EVPN & Network Fabric Technologies at Cisco Systems, Patrice primarily focuses on the Web portfolio. He expanded his expertise into the architecture and development of SONIC, with a particular emphasis on AI/ML and data center use cases. With 25 years of experience... Read More →
