User & Deployment Stories
Explore SONiC’s impact through real-world user journeys and deployment insights. These stories highlight how organizations are adopting SONiC to solve complex networking challenges across industries.
SONiC Deployments and Use Cases
Strategic Network Upgrade for a Global E-commerce Leader
A global e-commerce leader modernized its core infrastructure by deploying SONiC across a multi-vendor environment, enabling a smooth transition from 100GbE to 400GbE. By adopting community SONiC, the organization reduced costs by 30%, improved supply chain resilience, and gained full operational control through CI/CD automation and observability tooling. This case study shows how SONiC powers flexible, high-performance networks for fast-growing digital businesses.
Orange Innovates with SONiC Open Switch Deployment for Telco Use Case
Orange, a global telecommunications leader, documents the first telco use case of disaggregated SONiC switches in production. By using SONiC, Orange harnesses SONiC’s benefits of flexibility, cost efficiency, and open source innovation for future-ready network solutions. This case study exemplifies how Orange is setting new standards in telecommunications, showcasing the tangible benefits of open, software-driven networking solutions.
Alibaba Data Center Network Use Case
This case study highlights Alibaba Cloud’s transformation of its data center infrastructure using SONiC, an open and mature network operating system. Explore how Alibaba achieved substantial cost savings, enhanced network quality, and accelerated innovation across both AI and standard cloud compute/storage architectures, with a commitment to ongoing collaboration within the SONiC community for continuous advancements in network technologies.
SONiC Use Cases
Dive into technical use cases that showcase how SONiC enables specific architectures, optimizations, or industry applications. These examples focus on the “how” — from network design to feature application — across various scenarios.
Enabling Cost-Effective Multi-Cloud Connectivity with SONiC VPP
This use case demonstrates how a global team enabled scalable, automated, and secure multi-cloud connectivity using SONiC with Vector Packet Processing (VPP). By replacing expensive managed routing services with a virtual router built on SONiC, the team reduced costs by up to 30% while simplifying complex network configurations across on-prem and public cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
