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Exclusive Highlights from OCP Dublin: SONiC Open Insight Forum — Building AI-Ready Open Networking


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Relive the key moments from the SONiC Open Insight Forum, recorded during the OCP Regional Summit in Dublin. This special session brings together leaders from STORDIS, The Linux Foundation, the SONiC community, and the wider open networking ecosystem to explore how SONiC is enabling next-generation, AI-ready networks—at scale, in production, and in real hyperscaler environments.

From roadmap updates and community momentum to operational tooling and real-world deployments, you’ll hear why SONiC is increasingly seen as the foundation for modern, programmable data center networking.

  • Opening remarks from Waldemar Scheck (STORDIS) and Sunny Cai (The Linux Foundation)

  • SONiC’s growth, roadmap direction, and global community acceleration

  • AI-ready networking: scalability + programmability for AI workloads

  • Operational tooling that simplifies day-to-day SONiC management

  • Real deployments from Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google, and more

  • New SONiC Foundation members announced — including STORDIS and others

  • Why SONiC matters: community, ecosystem, and real adoption

  • SONiC in modern scalable data centers

  • Making networks AI-optimized through working groups and collaboration

  • Market momentum signals: visibility, tracking, and “project-market fit”

  • How regional events are expanding the SONiC community across Europe and beyond

0:00 Intro & welcome
0:12 OCP Regional Summit Dublin
0:33 Why SONiC matters (community + ecosystem)
0:48 SONiC in modern scalable data centers
1:06 AI-ready networks: scale & programmability
1:27 Tools improving day-to-day SONiC operations
1:41 Building the future together with SONiC
2:01 Today’s speaker lineup & handover
2:16 Sunny Cai: SONiC Foundation overview
2:43 Linux Foundation + networking projects landscape
3:23 Community growth: contributors, releases, commits
3:49 Working groups + making SONiC AI-optimized
4:19 One year of momentum: media, views, analyst reach
4:58 Market tracking + “project-market fit”
5:22 New SONiC Foundation members announced (incl. STORDIS)
5:41 SONiC booth + Summit activities
5:52 Robust ecosystem & fast-growing community
6:09 SONiC deployments: Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google, etc.
6:38 Global community highlights
6:49 Regional events agenda: London → Dublin → more
7:08 Join the SONiC Foundation
7:26 The future of open NOS = SONiC (wrap-up)


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