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Production-ready
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SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) is a free and open network operating system based on Linux and developed by Microsoft which nowadays has attracted a large number of industrial chain partners, forming a comprehensive SONiC ecosystem.
SONiC and its associated SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) are open source projects that have flourished in open cloud networking field in recent years. They are built on top of standard Linux systems and leverage the latest technologies such as containers and in-memory database.
AsterNOS built with SONiC as its kernel benefits from its open architecture, modular design, high reliability, and flexibility to expand new features in control plane.
AsterNOS provide RESTful API as first order management interface for all its functionalities as well as legacy CLI interface. By using the RESTful API, the switch systems can be fully controlled and managed by northbound controllers or any newly developed applications.
When deploy switches with AsterNOS alongside Asteria Network Controller (AFC), cloud administrators can centralized manage and control all the switch units in the Leaf-Spine topology as a single virtual switch.
When using standalone, AFC provides AsterNOS zero touch deployment, network topology discovery, one-click underlay and overlay service configuration, trouble shooting, and etc.
When integration with cloud controller, AFC works as OpenStack neutron plugin so that OpenStack compatible management stack will manage all the switches in the same context as computing and storage being managed.
Asterfsuion provides reliable and well-supported platforms that are compatible with SONiC. These platforms cover a wide range of bandwidth options, allowing you to choose from different Switch Abstraction Interfaces (SAIs) ranging from 1G to 400G. Whether you require leaf switches or super-spine layer switches, Asterfsuion has you covered with their support for SONiC across the entire spectrum of platform bandwidths.
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SONiC Use Case | Key Features | Speed | Model |
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Campus Leaf Layer![]() |
Layer-3 capability Access security ZTP |
1G (PoE / non-PoE) | |
Campus Spine Layer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
ZTP |
10G/25G | |
Data Center![]() ![]() ![]() |
CLOS (Leaf-Spine) architecture
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25G/100G/200G/400G | |
High Performance Computing![]() ![]() ![]() |
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Datacenter QoS RoCEv2 |
100G/200G/400G |
Layer-2 features | 4k VLANs, VLAN-Based MAC learning, LAG/LACP, MAC dynamic learning, MAC priority, MAC migration, LLDP neighbor discovery and aging, LLDP custom TLV, STP, MSTP, 9K Jumbo frame |
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Layer-3 features | IPv6 NDP, IPv6 ND proxy, Static ARP, Dynamic ARP, Gratuitous ARP, ARP proxy, Routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, Static routes, 252-path Equal Cost Multipath Routing (ECMP), ECMP elastic hash, DHCPv4/v6, VRF, Uplink and downlink association (monitor-link) |
Virtual network | VXLAN encapsulate and decapsulate, VXLAN layer-2 forwarding, VXLAN layer-3 gateway, Distributed gateway, ARP suppression, VXLAN L2/L3 tunnel automatically establish, Dynamic virtual network routing, Symmetric IRB, VM migration awareness |
High reliability | Containerized system, MC-LAG, BFD: BGP association, OSPF association, SLA, Track, ICPM-echo |
AsterNOS work on both Teralynx, Intel Tofino and Marvell. Making SONiC be able to run these switch chips smoothly, which is our value to help people who want to use innovated features on today’s new switch chip other than broadcom.
It depends on your application, in general you can easily start from either SDE or SONiC to all the functions about data plane and management plane.
SONiC community source code and our patch are available as source code.
Yes,Our AsterNOS fully support EVPN-VXLAN, Vxlan and MC LAG
AsterNOS has quite a lot of enterprise grade features, currently we don’t provide full source code access, but we can provide SONiC community version code with binary only ASIC vendor’s driver. The quality of community may or may not as good as an out-of-box product.
Our SONiC based AsterNOS can perfect run on our own hardware, in theory it can run on other vendor’s hardware, there will be a problem on verify the compatibility,we can arrange a meeting call discuss specially. We strongly suggest you to use our own hardware, which supports the best software compatibility, tech support, hardware stability and of course very cost-effective price
Usually our AsterNOS runs on our own hardware (for Teralynx ,Tofino and Marvell) we provide either bare metal hardware, or hardware with AsterNOS, there is some amount of software cost if you choose H/W and S/W bundle, but this bundle should be more cost effective than today’s White box and NOS from another vendor.
Asterfusion offers a perpetual software license, we will provide bug fixing and security patch all life long.For example, if you buy version 3.1 with the shipment, you will get all the upgrades 3.x unless there would be an EOL of version 3.x . Suppose we release 4.0 in the coming 1 year, you can also get free upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0, and get 4.x upgrades in free.
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