SONiC momentum continues at OCP Global Summit
Proponents of SONiC made a strong showing at last week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, where vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Nokia championed SONiC’s capabilities as an open Ethernet platform for AI networking.
Proponents of SONiC made a strong showing at last week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, where vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Nokia championed SONiC’s capabilities as an open Ethernet platform for AI networking.
The short version
- The Linux-based network operating system decouples network software from the underlying hardware and allows it to run on hundreds of switches and ASICs from multiple vendors.
- SONiC (which stands for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) supports a full suite of network features, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), remote direct memory access (RDMA), QoS, and Ethernet/IP.
- SONiC’s modularity, programmability, and cloud-based architecture make it a viable option for enterprises and hyperscalers to deploy as a traditional networking base.
What happened
And increasingly, it’s being used for AI networking, largely in hyperscale environments. The 650 Group forecasts that SONiC-based data center switching revenue will surge past $5 billion in 2026, driven by hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud along with growth in community-hardened architecture for the neoclouds and enterprise.
Why it matters
The vendor also said it is extending its SONiC offering to the Cisco Silicon One ASIC–powered N9000 Series for ultra-high-density fabrics.
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