Aviz Announces SONiC PlugFest Results, Proving Quality, Standardization, Multi-Vendor Readiness, and Significant TCO Savings

from CIO Infuence, via Aviz

Industry leaders, including Aviz Networks, Keysight Technologies, and World Wide Technology (WWT), unite vendors and users at PlugFest to test SONiC's scalability, interoperability, and real-world deployment readiness. Participating vendors include Cisco, Celestica, Edgecore, and Wistron.

The 2025 SONiC PlugFest has successfully demonstrated that Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is enterprise-ready, marking a significant milestone in open networking standardization. Hosted at ONE Center, by Aviz Networks, Keysight, and WWT, the event provided a vendor-neutral platform for users and hardware vendors to validate real-world deployment use cases and advance SONiC's adoption in modern data centers.

With 48 participating companies spanning industries like retail, e-commerce, healthcare, telecommunications, cloud service providers, and financial services, the SONiC PlugFest showcased broad industry collaboration. These companies contributed real-world use cases and valuable input into the test plans, enabling rigorous scalability, interoperability, and performance testing. The results confirm that enterprises can confidently adopt a standard, vendor-agnostic NOS across diverse switching environments.

Validating SONiC for Data Centers, Edge and AI Networks

The PlugFest validated five critical deployment use cases, ensuring SONiC is ready for large-scale, AI-powered networking environments:

VxLAN/EVPN – Advanced virtualized networking

RoCE AI Fabric – High-performance AI-driven workloads

L3 IP Clos – Scalable data center architectures

Layer 2 Leaf-Spine – Core network topologies

Power over Ethernet (PoE) – Enterprise-grade networking capabilities

One of the biggest revelations from the PlugFest was SONiC's PoE-enabled whitebox switches and enterprise-grade Layer 2 (L2) support expanding SONiC's applicability beyond hyperscalers into broader enterprise deployments.

WWT played a key role in bridging lab testing with real-world enterprise deployments.

"For enterprises evaluating SONiC, the PlugFest is a game-changer," observed Justin van Schaik, Technical Solutions Architect at WWT. "It's one thing to hear about SONiC's capabilities, but another to see it perform at scale. This event gives organizations the confidence they need to deploy an open, vendor-agnostic solution in their networks."