SONiC Mini Summit 2024: Full Schedule

09:10 CEST

SONiC Continuous Integrations and Testing on 150 Hardware SKUs - Alexander Gribenko, Larch Networks

Thursday September 19, 2024 09:10 - 09:35 CEST

Discuss challenges and solutions we utilized in Larch Networks to enable a sustainable continuous integration of SONIC and stable updates rollout across a large number of different hardware models

Speakers

Alexander Gribenko

VP R&D, Larch Networks

Over 15 years of experience in software, telecom and broadcast industries:Always eager to talk about:Computer network equipment both hardware and software, mainly network switches.NOSs - Network Operating Systems - both opensource and commercialMarvell Semiconductor Based devicesOpen... Read More →

202409 SONIC Testing Larch pdf

Thursday September 19, 2024 09:10 - 09:35 CEST
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09:35 CEST

Bridging the Gap: Open Networking from Data Center to Campus Edge - Markus Kittenberger, FH Technikum Wien & S Kamran Naqvi, Broadcom

Thursday September 19, 2024 09:35 - 10:00 CEST

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The FH Technikum Wien is a large University of applied sciences in Vienna Austria with over 4700 students enrolled in 34 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs. The University embarked on the Open Networking journey in 2020 with Open Networking hardware and open-source network operating system, SONiC in the Data Centre. With the success of this deployment, FHTW decided to take the next step and replace their Campus core and edge switching from traditional OEM based solution to Open Networking with Open-Source Network Operating System SONiC. This presentation aims to highlight reasons for moving away from a traditional three-tiered Architecture and adopting a modern VXLAN EVPN Fabric based Campus Architecture. Presenters from FHTW and Broadcom will also talk about University’s new Campus Core and Edge Architecture, role of network automation, FHTW’s approach to secure access control & monitoring and how Broadcom’s contributions to SONiC and SAI enabled this.

Speakers

Kamran Naqvi

Broadcom

Markus Kittenberger

UAS Technikum Wien

Thursday September 19, 2024 09:35 - 10:00 CEST
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10:00 CEST

Leveraging OpenLAN Cloud-Managed Switches with Open-Source SONiC - Taras Chornyi, PLVision

Thursday September 19, 2024 10:00 - 10:25 CEST

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The adoption of SONiC and open hardware platforms has traditionally been concentrated in data centers. However, there is now a growing interest in deploying these solutions in diverse edge applications, campus environments, and smaller vertical deployments. This shift is driven by several key factors:

Standardization efforts led by the OpenLAN Switching community, enabling cloud management and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) over the public internet.

The emergence of open-source SONiC-based solutions, offering greater flexibility and customization.

Introduction of new multi-gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE) platforms leveraging optimized switch silicon with embedded host CPUs.

Availability of pure-play cloud management solutions capable of managing multi-vendor environments through unified management interfaces, often in collaboration with proactive system integrators.

During this presentation, we will explore and demonstrate an OpenLAN Switching solution running on optimized switch silicon from Marvell Semiconductor, controlled and managed through a cloud-based platform.

Speakers

Taras Chornyi

Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy, PLVision

Taras Chornyi is a Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy at PLVision, a software product development company focused on open networking. He is a General Member Governing Board Representative for the SONiC and DENT projects. Taras has dedicated 15 years of his career to... Read More →

PLVision OpenLAN Cloud Managed Switches pdf

Thursday September 19, 2024 10:00 - 10:25 CEST
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10:25 CEST

Break

Thursday September 19, 2024 10:25 - 10:45 CEST

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Thursday September 19, 2024 10:25 - 10:45 CEST
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Break/Networking

10:45 CEST

Better Together: SONiC-OpenDaylight Synergy Boosts Connectivity - Miroslav Mikluš, Pantheon

Thursday September 19, 2024 10:45 - 11:10 CEST

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In a world increasingly driven by phenomena, such as AI, it is easy to forget the importance of network reliability and throughput. The fundamental need for robust connectivity has always been present and remains a cornerstone of our digital infrastructure. SONiC, an efficient data and control plane, and OpenDaylight, as a powerful and flexible management plane, can work together to significantly enhance network reliability and speed. OpenDaylight's centralized control allows for dynamic network management and policy enforcement, providing real-time insights and automated responses to network conditions. Meanwhile, SONiC, with its modular and containerized architecture, ensures high-performance packet processing and robust data plane operations. The integration of these two systems enables seamless coordination between management, control and data planes, resulting in improved network performance, reduced latency, and enhanced fault tolerance through proactive management and rapid recovery from issues.

Speakers

Miroslav Miklus

Chief Product Officer, Pantheon

Miroslav Miklus - CPO at PANTHEON.tech, a company with more than two decades of experience in network software products development.

[Mini Summit '24] Better Together SONiC x ODL 09 17 24 pdf

Thursday September 19, 2024 10:45 - 11:10 CEST
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11:10 CEST

Open-Source Configuration and Monitoring Tools for SONiC - Monsoon and AI-Enhanced ORCA - Kamal Bhatt, STORDIS

Thursday September 19, 2024 11:10 - 11:35 CEST

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STORDIS is redefining the networking landscape through its pioneering use of open-source technologies with SONiC, Monsoon, and AI-enhanced ORCA.
Monsoon is an opensource monitoring tool for SONiC has been there since 2022, Monsoon uses Prometheus and Grafana for data collection and visualization. Apart from using 'node_exporter' (standard data collector for prometheus client) Monsoon uses sonic-exporter to fetch data from SONiC DB to Prometheus and Grafana.
https://github.com/STORDIS/monsoon

ORCA focuses on orchestration and configuration of SONiC switches, ORCA provides a user-friendly interface for managing and configuring SONiC devices. ORCA is built on top of gNMI and uses a Neo4j graph database to store network topology. ORCA is designed to be scalable and extensible, and it can be used to manage large and complex SONiC networks. It is easy to install and use, and it provides a comprehensive set of features for managing SONiC devices. ORCA is a valuable resource for the SONiC community, is constantly being improved and expanded.

https://github.com/STORDIS/orca_ui
https://github.com/STORDIS/orca_backend
https://github.com/STORDIS/orca_nw_lib

https://stordis.github.io/

Speakers

Kamal Bhatt

STORDIS

STORDIS pdf

Thursday September 19, 2024 11:10 - 11:35 CEST
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11:35 CEST

Driving Performance: SONiC enables efficient AI Networking - S Kamran Naqvi, Broadcom

Thursday September 19, 2024 11:35 - 12:00 CEST

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An unprecedented growth in Large Language Models has created a demand for massive AI workloads, comprising tens of thousands of GPUs. An efficient and scalable Network is, therefore, at the heart of an efficient AI infrastructure to allow interworking of these GPUs as a unified computing system. But networking requirements for AI workloads are quite different from standard cloud computing infrastructures. In this presentation, we will explain the unique requirements for AI Networking and how efficient Scheduled Fabric running SONiC can meet these requirements and drive performance for AI infrastructure.

Speakers

Kamran Naqvi

Broadcom

Thursday September 19, 2024 11:35 - 12:00 CEST
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12:00 CEST

SRv6 uSID Support in SONiC - Ahmed Abdelsalam, Cisco

Thursday September 19, 2024 12:00 - 12:25 CEST

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SRv6 uSID provides a unified solution to deliver any kind of service (VPN, TE, FRR, NFV) end-to-end across the various network segments (Core, Metro, DC, NFV, Cloud, Host). It leverages the IPv6 dataplane to deliver services without the need for any shim layer.

SRv6 has more than 10 IETF RFCs standardizing the different building blocks of the solution including architecture, dataplane, control plane, operations, and management. It enjoys a very rich ecosystem that includes majority of network vendors, merchant silicon and open source.

SRv6 uSID is supported in SONiC as a collaboration between several OCP/SONiC ecosystem members including Alibaba, Cisco, Broadcom and Intel. The SONiC Routing WG has been created to discuss SRv6 features among other routing features.

At the 4th Networking Open Source Tech Conference in Beijing, the PhoenixWing initiative has been launched with the goal to strengthen the SRv6 support in SONiC. The initiative has been endorsed by the Linux Foundation, Alibaba, Cisco, Broadcom, and Microsoft.

SRv6 uSID in SONIC has been deployed in production at Alibaba.

In this presentation we provide an overview of SRv6 and the support in SAI/SONiC/FRR.

Speakers

Ahmed Abdelsalam

Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

Ahmed Abdelsalam is Technical Leader at Cisco. His main focus is the IP technology. Ahmed has been working on several IP engineering projects including SRv6 uSID and IP Measurements. He helps the customers in their SRv6 and IP Measurement adoption journey. He contributed to the SRv6... Read More →

20240919 uSID SONiC rev1b pdf

Thursday September 19, 2024 12:00 - 12:25 CEST
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