Decision Insights Coverage

Case study details a data centre move from STP-based Layer 2 to SONiC leaf–spine with MCLAG, keeping firewall Layer-3 termination.

Aviz Networks and NVIDIA discuss simulation-first AI infrastructure with DSX Air to validate connectivity, configs, security and failures before hardware.

Explains how Aviz Network Copilot ingests Cisco Catalyst Center data via a collector, Kafka streaming, normalized schema, and tag-scoped prompts.

Aviz Packet Broker runs on SONiC-based white box switches to aggregate, filter, optimize and distribute TAP/SPAN traffic with VXLAN/GRE visibility.

Splunk with Aviz Network Copilot converts natural-language network questions into SPL queries, returning summarized charts and actions with scale testing results.

Says AI traffic has shortened networking refresh cycles to about three years, and cites Cisco’s “no AI without a secure network” quote.