Enterprise SONiC Linux Distribution by Broadcom | Network Operating System (NOS)

Description

Network infrastructure is crucial for modern IT organizations as they strive to deliver superior business value by helping their organizations increase productivity, deliver services faster and remain flexible. In addition, the use of modern applications and workloads like virtualization, cloud, IoT and AI are pushing the boundaries of existing data centers so more traffic moves from the edge of the network into the clouds. To support these demands, IT organizations need a modern network infrastructure that can support these demands.

SONiC stands for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. It is an open-source, Linux-based network operating system (NOS) that runs on switches from multiple vendors.

It implements standard Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, and provides developers with a straightforward way to add new features. SONiC offers a full-suite of network functionality, like BGP and RDMA, that has been production-hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud-service providers.

SONiC offers the flexibility to create data center networking solutions, while using the collective strength of a large ecosystem with an active developer community. SONiC is designed for scalability and is in production today in large data center fabrics.

Enterprise SONiC Distribution is commercially supported and ruggedized or hardened version of open source SONiC to provide global support, advanced scalability, manageability and other enterpriseready features for enterprise, cloud-level large-scale data center network environments that require scalability, global support and manageability.

STORDIS is prepared to provide the support to any service provider or data center operator interested in leveraging a Commercial SONiC Distribution.

Enterprise SONiC Distribution is validated with a variety of optics and cables delivered from industry sources. This ensures that the overall system – switch hardware, firmware, NOS, and connectivity, from drivers to applications, are proven to work together, removing concern about platform level interoperability.

Packages

The Enterprise SONiC Distribution, version 4.0.2 packages are as follows:

• Cloud Base Package

  • This includes features/functionality (for example, eBGP, ZTP, programmatic API, QoS,
    ACL, and security features such as TACACS+) required for DC fabric underlay leaf,
    spine, super-spine use cases
  • Base telemetry features: Thresholds and Snapshots (BST)

• Cloud Advanced Package

  • This includes all features in Cloud Base
  • Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA, version 2.0), Tail Stamping and Drop Monitor
  • Linux PTP (KNETSync)

• Enterprise Base Package

  • This includes underlay features (for example, eBGP, ZTP, programmatic API, QoS, ACL, and so on) required for DC fabric underlay
  • Overlay features (BGP EVPN, VXLAN, and so on) for DC fabric overlay use cases (for PINs leaf, spine, super-spine)
  • Enterprise Features (such as RPVST+, IP Multicast, and so on)
  • Base telemetry features: Thresholds and Snapshots (BST)

• Enterprise Advanced Package

  • This includes all features in Enterprise_Base
  • Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA, version 2.0), Tail Stamping and Drop Monitor
  • Linux PTP (KNETSync)
  • Broadcom Debug Tool

• Campus Package

  • This includes the following features in addition to L2/L3 features:
  • POE, POE+ and POE-bt
  • Features related to Port Access Control (IEEE 802.1X, MAB, dynamic ACLs, RADIUS assigned VLANs, RADIUS support)
  • LLDP-MED
  • Port Security
  • Digital Optical Monitoring and Time Domain Reflectometry
  • EVPN VXLAN
  • Campus package is supported on campus-specific platforms only

Main Use Cases

• Data Center L3 CLOS
• Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
• Campus

To read more about these use cases, download the datasheet below