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Extended SONiC Workshop 2025

Brian O'Connor edited this page Oct 14, 2025 · 19 revisions

On October 17, 2025, we invite you to Google's MP3 Building in Sunnyvale, CA, for a full day dedicated to innovation and collaboration. Pre-registration is required.

Morning Program: Kickstart your day with their insightful submitted talks from industry leaders and SONiC experts that will inspire and educate you. The program includes several tracks covering Developer Experience, Virtual Data Plane (VDP), Telemetry, Platform, and Routing.

Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Engage in stimulating in-person working group sessions designed to foster collaboration and innovation among peers. Many working groups are planning to host a meeting.

This workshop is perfectly timed with the OCP Global Summit earlier in the week, ensuring a robust mix of attendees from across the globe. It’s a prime chance to expand your network and dive deep into SONiC’s future.

Update 10/14/2025: Please note that we made significant revisions to the preliminary agenda to accommodate a larger than expected number of attendees.

Agenda

Talks

Start Talk Title and Speakers
8:00am Registration & Light Breakfast
Note: The building does not open until 8am.
8:30am Welcome
Mythil Raman (Sr. Director, Google)
8:40am SONiC Mainline Branch Stability - Challenges and Potential Solutions
Kartik Chandran (Arista), Bhagat Janarthanan (Google)
9:00am Modernizing SONiC Builds to improve performance and reliability
Brian O'Connor (Google)
9:20am Leveraging SONiC for real-time adaptive routing in AI-centric Leaf-Spine Fabrics
Jeff Chen (Marvell), Jithender Reddy (Marvell)
9:40am Enhancing Network Scalability, Flexibility and Reliability: Decoupling RIB and FIB in SONiC
Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)
10:00am Break
10:20am High-fidelity simulation of deployed DCI routers based on Cisco NGDP
Shenglin Zhu (Alibaba), Feng Xue (Cisco)
10:40am Aktive: KNE multi-node virtual testbeds
Sonika Jindal (Google), Marcus Hines (Google)
11:00am SONiC gNOI: Advancing Standardized- API-Driven Operations for Open Networking
Neha Das (Google), Dawei Huang (Microsoft)
11:20am HFT: High frequency telemetry for SONiC
Ze Gan (Microsoft), Janet Cui (Microsoft)
11:40am Standardizing Network Observability: Mirror-on-Drop with Dropmon
Ravindranath C Kanakarajan (Marvell), Madhu Paluru (Aviz Networks)
12:00am Lunch
12:50am SONiC-on-Bare Metal: How Lightweight Can SONiC Be While Still Remaining SONiC?
Leonid Khedyk (PLVision), Taras Chornyi (PLVision)
1:10pm Using BTRFS and its features for a compact and resilient SONiC image
Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Vaibhav Hemant Dixit (Microsoft)
1:30pm In-Service SONiC Upgrade
Manas Kumar Mandal (Cisco), Jihong LI (Cisco)
1:50pm Live patching service via LibCare on white box devices
Kang Jiang (Alibaba)
2:10pm Closing
Ming Tag (Director, Google)
2:20pm Break
2:30pm Working Group Meetings: Session 1
3:00pm Working Group Meetings: Session 2

The Extended SONiC Workshop ends at 3:30pm.

Working Group Meetings Details

Room Session 1 - 2:30pm Session 2 - 3pm
Room 1 Test
Kartik Chandran (Arista)
Virtual Data Plane (VDP) & SmartSwitch
Murali Venkat (Cisco), Max Xiao (Arista), Riff Jiang (Microsoft)
Room 2 Layer-1
Bobby McGonigle (Nexthop AI)
Routing
Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)
Room 3 Platform OS
Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Lotus Fenn (Nexthop AI)
Chassis
Eswaran Baskaran (Nexthop AI)
Room 4 Unified Management Framework (UMF)
Shashank Neelam (Google)
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