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This article focuses on SONiC, an open-source network operating system, detailing Cisco's strategy to provide both community-built and hardened enterprise distributions for scalable production use. While networking is the domain, the core subject matter addresses the operational maturity, lifecycle management, and deployment paths of a critical software stack used in AI fabrics and hyperscale environments.

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SONiC’s next chapter with Cisco: Open choice, production confidence

Cisco BlogsOctober 12, 20266 min read

Cisco brings operational confidence to enterprise SONiC. Learn about our deployment paths, open interfaces in AI fabrics, and the essential security and day-2 operations needed to scale from hardware trust to production.

I have spent most of my career balancing two key forces in network decisions. One is the freedom to design a network your way. The other is the discipline required to operate that network at scale, across hardware and software boundaries, over time. In hyperscale environments, teams have already shown that SONiC can deliver on both promises. They have built large, efficient networks around an open NOS and helped move SONiC from an experiment to a proven platform. The question now is less whether SONiC can scale and more whether it can fit the enterprise. Enterprise networks are not one fleet with one operating model. They bring multiple hardware generations,…

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