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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.