The #OpenComputeProject (OCP) held its 2016 U.S summit this week, with member organizations coming forward with new technologies to advance the state of the open data center.
From a networking perspective, the single biggest new development is the contribution of the Software for #OpenNetworking in the Cloud ( #SONiC ). SONiC is an effort that comes to OCP, with the support of multiple vendors, though the project today is led by #Microsoft.
"SONiC is a collection of networking software components required to have a fully functional L3 device that can be agnostic of any particular #Linux distribution," The SONiC Github project pagestates. "Today SONiC runs on Debian."
SONiC was formerly known as Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) and is already in used inside of Microsoft's production data centers.
The SONiC platform is built on top of the the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that was announced at the 2015 OCP Summit. SAI is an abstraction layer for switches that enables a common API interface across network operating systems.
#Dell is contributing its #OS10 networking software to be a base for SONiC and is supporting the effort overall.
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