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Jun 10, 2026
Event Recap – SONiC Conclave Bengaluru, 2026
Author: Bidipta Das, Cisco Illustration: Aman Chowdhary, Cisco The adoption of SONiC has reached new heights in recent years, evolving far beyond its initial use among hyperscalers to become the preferred Network Operating System (NOS) for a wide range of datacentre applications. In India, SONiC is swiftly gaining momentum among…
Mar 31, 2026
A Recap of a SONiC Community Meetup in Bratislava, Slovakia
Author: Filip Sterling, Marketing Manager, PANTHEON.tech The SONiC community continues to grow globally, driven by engineers and contributors exploring open networking in real-world environments. Recently, PANTHEON.tech hosted a SONiC community meetup in Bratislava, Slovakia, bringing together people passionate about the future of open source networking to connect with like-minded peers.…
Feb 9, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Aditi Reddy on Advancing Disaggregated SONiC-VPP Architecture in KNE
Through guided, hands-on project work, the SONiC Mentorship Program helps new contributors turn technical challenges into real-world open source impact. In this spotlight, we speak with Aditi Reddy, a graduate student at North Carolina State University, about her work on building and validating a disaggregated SONiC-VPP architecture inside a Kubernetes-based…
Feb 6, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Shale Lucas on Improving Team Daemon Performance with a Netlink Proxy
The SONiC Mentorship Program brings contributors and mentors together to work on practical technical challenges and strengthen the open networking ecosystem. In this spotlight, we speak with Shale Lucas, a student at The City College of New York, about his work on improving team daemon performance by implementing a proxy…
Feb 4, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Gaurav Nagesh on Enhancing Redis Access Efficiency and Robustness in SONiC
Through hands-on collaboration with experienced mentors, the SONiC Mentorship Program empowers contributors to address real-world challenges and advance open networking technologies. In this spotlight, we speak with Gaurav Nagesh, a graduate student from Illinois Tech, about his work on improving Redis performance and stability across SONiC platform daemons, helping make…
Feb 2, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Prathyusha Bathula on Expanding Community Testbeds with cSONiC
Through the SONiC Mentorship Program, contributors collaborate with experienced mentors to solve real-world technical challenges and help advance the open networking ecosystem. In this spotlight, we speak with Prathyusha Bathula about her work on adding cSONiC support to the SONiC community testbed, helping reduce external dependencies and simplify testbed deployment…
