Aviz Announces SONiC PlugFest Results, Proving Quality, Standardization, Multi-Vendor Readiness, and Significant TCO Savings
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.
TCO Analysis: SONiC's Cost Advantage
PlugFest's TCO analysis confirms that enterprises adopting SONiC-based open networking can achieve:
Up to 40% lower TCO compared to proprietary solutions
Reduced hardware costs by eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling multi-vendor flexibility
Lower operational expenses (OpEx) with no NOS licensing costs and reduced support subscription fees
Future-proof scalability for AI-driven workloads—without the high costs of closed-network environments
'The success of the 2025 PlugFest highlights that Community SONiC is no longer just for early adopters—it's now an enterprise-ready NOS backed by real-world results across industries,' said Vishal Shukla, CEO of Aviz Networks. 'With a strong vendor-neutral community, we're proving that SONiC delivers real-world performance, scale, and interoperability, making it the go-to choice for modern AI-driven data centers while significantly lowering TCO.'
Industry Leaders Driving SONiC Adoption
Keysight powered the PlugFest with automated traffic generation, ensuring precise validation at scale.
'PlugFest showcases the power of automated, large-scale traffic testing in an open networking environment. By leveraging Keysight's advanced validation tools, we enable vendors and users to push SONiC to its limits, proving its readiness for hyperscale and enterprise networks alike,' remarked Manodipto Ghose, Senior Product Manager at Keysight.
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.'
650 Group Recognizes SONiC's Market Momentum
As part of the PlugFest initiative, Aviz Networks, Keysight Technologies, WWT, and 650 Group recorded an in-depth webinar to discuss the results, insights, and implications for enterprises evaluating SONiC. The session featured expert perspectives on SONiC's scalability, cost advantages, and role in AI-driven networking environments.
Watch the full webinar here
During the webinar, Alan Weckel, Founding Analyst at 650 Group, shared insights into SONiC's rapid adoption and its impact on AI-driven networking. The event highlighted key industry trends and real-world deployment considerations, reinforcing SONiC's position as an enterprise-ready NOS.
'The momentum for SONiC is undeniable, as enterprises and cloud providers seek open, scalable solutions for AI-driven networks,' noted Weckel. 'PlugFest 2025 reinforces the fact that SONiC is a mature, production-ready NOS that enterprises can deploy with confidence, thanks to a robust vendor ecosystem and proven interoperability.'
As AI-driven workloads continue to push the boundaries of network infrastructure, SONiC's role as an open, scalable, and cost-efficient NOS is more critical than ever. The success of PlugFest 2025 sets the stage for broader industry collaboration, ensuring that enterprises and cloud providers have a robust, open-source alternative to traditional, proprietary networking solutions.
About Aviz Networks
On a mission to deliver Networks for AI and AI for Networks, Aviz was founded to modernize and transform the networking software solutions, addressing the evolving demands of data centers, edge, and GPU networks as they scale and integrate AI. By providing vendor-agnostic solutions Aviz empowers enterprises with the flexibility of hardware choices, operational control, and significant cost savings.
Aviz investors include Cisco, Qualcomm, Alter Ventures, Moment Ventures, and other major networking vendors, along with a strong advisory board. Aviz's innovations have been successfully deployed by leading e-commerce platforms, telecommunications providers, retailers, GPU-as-a-service providers, cloud service providers, and diverse enterprise networks. To learn more, visit http://www.aviznetworks.com
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