Aviz Certified Community SONiC CCS 1.0 outlines certified images and hardware validation

Aviz Certified Community SONiC CCS 1.0 packages certified Community SONiC images, hardware validation across multiple switch vendors, supported feature sets, and a scalability matrix derived from the 202411 Community SONiC release to support production planning.

Research Overview

The vendor brief describes Aviz CCS 1.0 as a validated Community SONiC distribution intended to qualify a feature set for production deployments. It frames Community SONiC as a baseline while positioning CCS 1.0 as the effort to validate, qualify, and support a usable capabilities set across platforms.

CCS 1.0 is described as including certified switch OS images, hardware support, additional capabilities, scalability considerations, and other elements. Aviz states it provides a well-defined release based on the 202411 Community SONiC, with improvements and bug fixes.

Key Findings

The brief states that CCS 1.0 is designed to reduce the need for each organization to independently validate Community SONiC across multiple platforms. It does so by delivering a certified release and documenting which features work and which switches are validated.

Aviz also describes CCS 1.0 as including scalability information to help architects match hardware platforms to deployment requirements before deployment. The brief ties this planning support to VLAN, MAC/ARP, routing, ACL, and VXLAN related limits.

Technical Breakdown

CCS 1.0 is described as covering Layer 2, Layer 3, quality of service, telemetry, and management functions for data center and enterprise fabrics. Core capabilities listed include VLAN, LAG/LACP, LLDP, BGP, BGP unnumbered, static routes, ECMP, BFD, EVPN, VXLAN, VRF, sFlow, ERSPAN, ZTP, ACLs, NTP, Syslog, TACACS+, Radius, and SNMP.

The brief also lists additional capabilities including Static LAG, PVST, 802.1x, MCLAG, DHCP Relays, VRRP, SAG, Streaming Telemetry with ONES, and FMCLI. It further states that Aviz-labeled improvements are intended to be provided back to the SONiC community.

Operational Impact

For deployment design and scale planning, the brief specifies a scalability matrix covering VLANs, MAC tables, ARP, routes, ACLs, and VXLAN components. It presents this as a way for design teams to understand limits and match platforms to specific scalability needs.

In terms of use cases, the brief states CCS 1.0 is built for IP CLOS and VXLAN BGP-EVPN fabrics. For IP CLOS, it describes Layer 3 leaf-spine designs using BGP and ECMP; for VXLAN BGP-EVPN, it describes a virtualized multi-tenant overlay using VXLAN tunneling with a BGP EVPN control plane, VTEPs, distributed anycast gateways, and host mobility.

Validated Hardware Platforms

Aviz CCS 1.0 is described as tested against hardware SKUs from Celestica, Cisco, Edgecore, NVIDIA, and Wistron. The brief specifies compatibility with Broadcom, Marvell, NVIDIA Spectrum, and Cisco ASIC technologies and lists port speeds from 1G to 800G.

The brief provides example supported SKUs including Celestica DS1000, DS2000, DS3000, DS4000, DS4101; Cisco 8101-32FH and 8102-64H; Edgecore AS7326 and AS7726; various NVIDIA SN series switches; and Wistron.

Aviz CCS 1.0 packages certified Community SONiC images, validated switch platforms, a documented feature set, and a scalability matrix for IP CLOS and VXLAN BGP-EVPN fabrics, aiming to support production planning for enterprise open networking deployments. This “Blog Signals brief” is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog.