Production-Grade SONiC & Open Networking

PalC helps organizations adopt, extend, and operate SONiC-based open networks across data centers, enterprises, and service provider environments—turning disaggregated platforms into stable, production-ready systems.

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Production-Grade SONiC & Open Networking

Solution Overview

SONiC is an open-source network operating system designed to decouple network software from hardware, enabling disaggregated networking at scale. It provides the foundation for building vendor-neutral, programmable, and automation-friendly network fabrics. PalC works across the SONiC lifecycle, from hardware bring-up and feature enablement to performance tuning and long-term operations helping organizations adopt open networking with confidence. Our work focuses on making SONiC operationally viable in enterprise, cloud, AI, and service provider environments. The result is a production-ready, open networking foundation that delivers vendor independence, operational transparency, and long-term architectural flexibility.

Planning & Architecture
Understanding deployment goals, scale expectations, hardware choices, and operational constraints before defining the SONiC solution.
Engineering & Integration
Customizing SONiC, integrating protocols, applications, and third-party tools, and enabling platforms across hardware ecosystems.
Commissioning & Validation
Validating SONiC deployments against real traffic, topology scale, and failure scenarios.
Deployment & Operations Support
Supporting rollout, upgrades, troubleshooting, and long-term operation through TAC, managed services, and resident engineering.
Future Readiness
This approach ensures SONiC platforms move beyond evaluation into reliable, long-term production use.

Key Capabilities

Comprehensive features designed for enterprise-scale infrastructure

SONiC Engineering & Customization

Development and hardening of SONiC beyond community defaults, including feature enhancements, protocol support, and platform-specific optimizations.

Multi-Vendor Hardware Enablement

Validation and deployment of SONiC across ODM platforms and merchant silicon ecosystems, enabling consistent behavior across diverse hardware.

Protocol & Control Plane Development

Custom development and integration of L2/L3, routing, multicast, and control-plane features to meet real-world deployment requirements.

SONiC Applications & Tooling

Development of management, monitoring, security, and observability applications on top of SONiC to improve operational control.

Test, Validation & Qualification

Extensive validation across topologies, scale scenarios, and failure cases to ensure production readiness.

Architecture Overview

Complete workflow from hardware bring-up to production deployment. Key stages include ONIE installation, SONiC image build and deployment, provisioning and provisioning and custom requirement specific configuration, and telemetry pipeline integration.

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Hardware Bring-upPhysical hardware installation and power-on

ONIE InstallationOpen Network Install Environment setup

Base Image BuildSONiC image compilation and customization

SONiC Image DeploymentImage installation via ONIE - ZTP or USB

Provisioning EngineAutomated configuration management

Custom requirement specific ConfigLayer 2/3 overlay network configuration

Telemetry PipelinegNMI, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus integration

Components

Hardware Bring-up

Physical hardware installation, power-on, and baseline validation.

ODM and merchant silicon platform support
Pre-deployment hardware validation
Consistent bring-up across multi-vendor gear

First step in SONiC deployment pipeline.

Why Choose This Solution

Delivering measurable value through proven technology and expertise

Adopt SONiC across multiple hardware platforms without locking into proprietary software stacks.

Disaggregated architectures enable choice of hardware vendors and platforms while maintaining consistent software behavior.

Structured approach and proven methodologies accelerate deployment timelines compared to traditional proprietary solutions.

Open telemetry, tooling, and custom applications provide comprehensive visibility into network behavior and performance.

Production-ready engineering and validation reduce operational risk and ensure long-term stability.

Technical Specifications

Supported ASIC Platforms

• Broadcom Trident / Tomahawk families
• Mellanox Spectrum (1/2/3)
• Innovium Teralynx
• Barefoot Tofino

Port Speeds

• 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE
• 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE
• 200GbE, 400GbE, 800GbE

Protocols

• BGP (IPv4 / IPv6)
• EVPN-VXLAN
• OSPF, IS-IS
• PFC, ECN, DCQCN

Management & Control

• gNMI: gRPC Network Management Interface
• gNOI: gRPC Network Operations Interface
• REST APIs
• SNMP
• IS-CLI

Configuration Examples

{
  "VXLAN_TUNNEL": {
    "vxlan_tunnel_1": {
      "src_ip": "10.1.1.1"
    }
  },
  "VXLAN_TUNNEL_MAP": {
    "vxlan_tunnel_1|map_1000": {
      "vni": "1000",
      "vlan": "Vlan1000"
    }
  },
  "BGP_EVPN": {
    "enabled": "true"
  }
}

{
  "PORT_QOS_MAP": {
    "Ethernet0": {
      "pfc_enable": "3,4"
    }
  },
  "PFC_WD": {
    "GLOBAL": {
      "POLL_INTERVAL": "200",
      "DETECTION_TIME": "2000",
      "ACTION": "drop"
    }
  }
}

Performance Metrics