{"id":525461,"date":"2021-08-09T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/keysight-and-aviz-networks-announce-results-of-first-sonic-open-source-network-operating-system-community-plugfest\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:03:01","slug":"keysight-and-aviz-networks-announce-results-of-first-sonic-open-source-network-operating-system-community-plugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/keysight-and-aviz-networks-announce-results-of-first-sonic-open-source-network-operating-system-community-plugfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Keysight and AVIZ Networks Announce Results of First SONiC Open Source Network Operating System Community PlugFest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keysight and AVIZ Networks Announce Results of First SONiC Open Source Network Operating System Community PlugFest<\/b><\/p>\n

\nTesting with 6 vendors and over 20 customers demonstrates that SONiC is ready for deployment\n<\/p>\n

SANTA ROSA, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nKeysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, and AVIZ Networks<\/a>, announced the results of the first SONiC Open Source Network Operating System Community PlugFest which was held May through June 2021. The PlugFest results demonstrate that Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC<\/a>) technology is ready for deployment.\n<\/p>\n

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\nSONiC, the open-source network operating system based on Linux, runs on switches from multiple vendors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). It enables users to create network solutions while leveraging the strength of a large ecosystem and community.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cKeysight Technologies and AVIZ Networks have partnered to help accelerate the transition to open networking using SONiC through testing,\u201d said Karam Gerges, vice president, AVIZ Networks. \u201cThe PlugFest is a key initiative in supporting the commercial acceptance of open-source Network Operating Systems like SONiC. Test events like PlugFest help vendors and the user community understand how data centers can successfully leverage disaggregated network architectures.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Results Demonstrate SONiC Readiness<\/b><\/p>\n

\nIn addition to Keysight and AVIZ Networks, the open community test event featured customers from the SONiC Customer Advisory Board including members from the enterprise network operator, system integrator and cloud service provider community; vendors including ASIC manufacturers, original design manufacturers (ODMs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs).\n<\/p>\n

\nThe PlugFest determined the maturity of SONiC on different hardware platforms from a customer perspective using a suite of tests across 6 vendors to validate feature sets, scalability and performance. The \u2018essential test suite\u2019 validated key features listed by the SONiC community for management, Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality. The \u2018scale test suite\u2019 characterized control and data plane scaling capacity and the \u2018deployment test suite\u2019 validated NetOps integration in a Tier1\/Tier0 topology. The test contents and methodologies were reviewed and enhanced by the PlugFest Customer Advisory Board.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe testing evaluated SONiC maturity for each group of stakeholders (customers and vendors) and tested feature sets, scalability and performance in five key use case groups. The results are the cumulative average on how the participating vendor equipment performed in tests to assess the readiness of SONiC in an open ecosystem in which customers have a choice of solutions from multiple vendors for ASICs and switches. Test results from more than 100 test cases were anonymized into an aggregated pass rate score adding up to 100% each for each group:\n<\/p>\n