SONiC – open than ever

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SONiC is a containerized network OS that runs via the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) on many ASICs, supports over 100 switch platforms in production, and Microsoft reports millions of ports deployed across cloud, enterprise and carrier sites. SONiC is adding DASH SDN APIs to translate tenant policies into ACLs and queuing, expanding to chassis and WAN-class switches, and formally joins the Linux Foundation to accelerate contributions and ecosystem tooling at sonicfoundation.dev.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:15What is SONiC
3. 1:58Why Microsoft founded SONiC
4. 3:14SONiC ecosystem
5. 4:44Linux Foundation
6. 5:46Governing board
7. 6:24SONiC journey
8. 7:30Join the Linux Foundation
9. 7:51Open invitation
10. 8:17Questions

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