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Cisco details soniC deployment and AI network operations on Cisco 8000

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Cisco has organized an online bootcamp scheduled for April 3, 2025, focusing on the integration of Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) with the Cisco 8000 series, aimed at IT professionals managing Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads and DCO. The event intends to provide insights into deploying SONiC on Cisco hardware and leveraging AI-driven network operations and observability tools.

Research overview

The bootcamp presents an examination of SONiC's application on Cisco 8000 devices, highlighting the open networking model’s compatibility with high-performance hardware. It covers deployment strategies tailored to AI-centric infrastructure and includes accounts of organizations that have successfully expanded their networks using this setup.

Technical breakdown

Cisco’s segment details key topics including the rationale behind selecting SONiC for the Cisco 8000 platform, various deployment models, and use cases demonstrating network scalability. Aviz contributes by showcasing its ONES platform, offering live demonstrations of observability and orchestration capabilities orchestrated for Cisco 8000 environments.

Operational impact

The event addresses operational enhancements through automation in deployment and provisioning processes. It details real-time network monitoring and AI-based telemetry methods designed to identify and resolve network performance issues preemptively.

AI networking with SONiC

Further discussion includes optimizing SONiC configurations specifically for AI workloads by adjusting parameters such as congestion control and protocols like RoCEv2. The bootcamp also covers design principles for scaling AI clusters within Cisco 8000 SONiC fabrics and examines techniques like Power Factor Correction (PFC) and Explicit Congestion Notification to manage traffic latency and throughput effectively.

This summary encapsulates a Cisco vendor blog outlining an educational event addressing technical and operational facets of deploying SONiC within Cisco 8000 infrastructures, relevant for enterprise IT decision-makers overseeing AI-related networking and data center management.

Blog post, originally published by Ilona Gabinsky at Aviz Networks.

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