Manage Your DC Fabric from Day 0 to Day N
NetFabric is PalC's purpose-built fabric management platform for SONiC-based data centers covering design, provisioning, lifecycle automation, telemetry, and change governance in one unified system.
From blueprint to production
NetFabric covers the entire DC fabric lifecycle so your teams work from a single platform — not a collection of disconnected tools.
Design & Planning
Model your fabric topology, plan IP addressing, define VLAN schemes, BGP ASN allocation, and validate designs before touching hardware.
Provisioning & Deployment
Zero-touch provisioning, templated configuration rendering, and staged rollout with automated acceptance testing across your entire fabric.
Operations & Change
GitOps-driven change management, real-time drift detection, streaming telemetry, incident correlation, and hardware lifecycle governance.
Auto-discover your entire fabric in minutes
NetFabric crawls your SONiC fabric via LLDP and gNMI, builds a live topology graph, and maintains a real-time inventory of every device, interface, port, and neighbor relationship - with zero manual input.
- LLDP-based topology discovery across multi-tier Clos fabrics
- Vendor-agnostic - Edgecore, Celestica, Dell, and any SONiC-capable hardware
- Intent-driven inventory - what should be there vs what is there
- Automatic hardware EOL and EOS lifecycle flagging
# Source-of-truth → Rendered → Validated → Deployed ✓ render leaf-03.j2 → leaf-03.cfg ✓ validate batfish: 0 routing errors ✓ review approved by @sre-lead ⟳ deploy leaf-03 [2/2 commands] ✓ test acceptance: 14/14 pass # Rollback available: git revert abc1d2e
GitOps for every config change, at every device
Every configuration change is driven through a Git pipeline peer-reviewed, pre-validated by a Batfish static analysis engine, and rolled out in controlled stages. Rollback in one click.
- Template-driven config generation from a NetBox/Nautobot source-of-truth
- Batfish pre-deployment validation catch routing loops before they happen
- Change windows, approval gates, and blast-radius controls built in
- Full audit trail who changed what, when, and why
# gNMI streaming — last 60 seconds spine-01 eth1/1 ↑ 87.4 Gbps spine-01 eth1/2 ↑ 91.2 Gbps leaf-03 BGP ⚠ session flap ×3 leaf-03 MLAG ⚠ peer-link util 94% → RCA: leaf-03 peer-link near-congestion
Know what your fabric is doing right now
Streaming telemetry via gNMI delivers per-interface and per-protocol metrics in real time. NetFabric's RCA engine correlates events across the fabric and surfaces actionable root causes — not raw log dumps.
- gNMI/OpenConfig streaming sub-second granularity on all interfaces
- Grafana/InfluxDB native export with pre-built fabric dashboards
- Cross-fabric RCA correlates BGP, MLAG, interface, and hardware events
- Proactive drift alerts before config deviation impacts traffic
Built for open, multi-vendor fabrics
NetFabric's layered architecture integrates with your existing toolchain — not replace it.
Presentation Layer
Entry point for operations and automation teams with multi-channel access to every fabric workflow.
- Web dashboard for NOC visibility
- REST + GraphQL APIs for automation
- CLI tooling for power users
UI & Access Layer
Orchestration & SoT Integration
Fabric Intelligence Engine
SONiC Fabric — Device Abstraction
Not all fabric managers are equal
See how NetFabric compares to traditional vendor-locked and open-source alternatives.
| Capability | NetFabric PalC | Arista CloudVision | Cisco NDFC | Open-source DIY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SONiC-native support | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ~ |
| Multi-vendor ODM hardware | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| GitOps change pipeline | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| Pre-deployment Batfish validation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Day 0 digital twin / simulation | ✓ | ✗ | ~ | |
| gNMI streaming telemetry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Cross-fabric RCA engine | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ✗ |
| Zero vendor lock-in | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Professional support & SLA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Where NetFabric runs
AI & GPU Cluster Fabrics
Manage high-radix, low-latency fabrics for GPU training clusters. Real-time congestion visibility and automated remediation keep your AI workloads moving.
Enterprise Campus & Branch DC
Standardise configuration across distributed data centers and campus cores with shared templates, centralised SoT, and consistent change governance.
Managed Service Providers
Multi-tenant fabric management with per-customer policy isolation. Onboard new customers in hours, not days, with templated deployment pipelines.
Colocation Operators
Manage diverse customer-owned SONiC gear in shared infrastructure. Drift detection and automated remediation reduce SLA-impacting incidents.
Network Operations Centers
A single pane of glass for all fabric events, telemetry, and change activity. Shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations.
Open Networking Migrations
Migrating from proprietary to SONiC-based infrastructure? NetFabric handles the Day 0 planning, phased rollout, and parallel operation period safely.
Be first to experience NetFabric
NetFabric is currently in early access. Register your interest and our team will reach out to schedule a personalised demo and discuss your deployment scenario.
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Next steps
Exploring fabric management for SONiC-based data centers?
Talk to the PalC team about NetFabric for Day 0 design, Day 1 provisioning, and Day N operations across open networking environments.
