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Aug 10, 2026
Understanding the SONiC Scale-Up Test Standard: A Guide to LLR/CBFC Verification
At the recently held 2026 AI Networking Technology & Innovation Conference, the SONiC community Scale-Up Working Group announced the latest LLR/CBFC testing progress of the Ethernet Scale-Up Verification Test Standard (SONiC Scale-Up Test Standard). What Is Ethernet Scale-Up? Let's start with the most fundamental question: training a large AI model…
Aug 9, 2026
SONiC China Forum 2026: From Scale Up Standard to the Open-Source Networking Landscape
On August 8, 2026, the "2026 AI Network Technology Innovation Conference" took place in Beijing. With strategic support from Alibaba Cloud, the Linux Foundation, and the SONiC community, the conference featured three tracks — a main forum, an AI Infra ecosystem forum, and a SONiC ecosystem forum — drawing over…
Jul 2, 2026
How SONiC Powers the World’s Largest AI Infrastructure
By Guohan Lu, Azure Networking, Microsoft and Mehak Mahajan, Broadcom Engineering AI infrastructure has introduced a class of networking challenges that traditional data center software was never designed to handle. Over the past few years, the SONiC community—spanning silicon vendors, system vendors, cloud operators, and network engineers—has been working together…
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…
