Company Deepens Open-Source Community
Collaboration to Help Enable Open Networking
Innovations
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor
solutions, announced today it has joined the Linux
Foundation's SONiC and that John
DaCosta, vice president of product marketing, Switch
Business Unit, is now a member of the Governing Board. SONiC is an
open-source network operating system (NOS) based on Linux that runs
on switches. Marvell has joined SONiC as a Premier Member with the
goal of extending SONiC beyond its initial use in data center
networking applications to storage, edge, and data processing.
Marvell intends to leverage SONiC-driven data infrastructure to
open new market opportunities for the company.
"We are pleased to welcome Marvell to the Linux Foundation and
the SONiC community," said Arpit
Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT at the
Linux Foundation. "Marvell's support for enterprise adoption within
open-source is a welcome addition to the growing ecosystem."
Created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers, SONiC offers a
full suite of network functionality, such as BGP and RDMA, that has
been production-hardened within leading cloud service providers. It
offers teams the flexibility to create bespoke network solutions by
leveraging the collective strength of a large ecosystem and
community. To date, SONiC has been deployed by seven out of
the top 10 cloud service providers, while being projected to reach
an overall data center market share of 21 percent by 2025,
including tier 2/3 cloud and enterprise data centers, according to
650 Group.
Additionally, with SONiC's expansion into data processing units
(DPUs) with SONiC-DASH (Disaggregated APIs for SONiC Hosts) and
Software Defined Networking (SDN) enablement with PINS (P4
Integrated Network Stack), it delivers a compelling open-source NOS
that enables a unified and flexible control and management
plane.
Marvell's contributions to SONiC include:
- A whitebox portfolio of Teralynx® and
Prestera® switch systems running community SONiC
supported by software and hardware partners, increasing the
availability of disaggregated solutions;
- Ethernet Bunch-Of-Flash (EBOF) solutions running
partner-hardened SONiC for next-generation storage use cases
enabling managed ethernet storage fabrics;
- SONiC running on Arm®-based silicon for edge and
enterprise use cases reducing customer TCO by eliminating expensive
hardware components and reducing power requirements; and
- Extending SONiC support to Alaska® PHYs, Marvell DSP-based
optics and OCTEON® DPUs.
"I am pleased to represent Marvell as the newest member of the
SONiC Governing Board," said John
DaCosta, vice president product marketing, Switch Business
Unit at Marvell. "SONiC is seeing rapid adoption, including
Marvell-based deployments. With Marvell's comprehensive cloud
infrastructure product portfolio of Teralynx and Prestera switches,
OCTEON DPUs, and high-speed Alaska PHYs, we look forward to
contributing to this community and working with the ecosystem
towards expanding SONiC into new realms, giving operators ultimate
control over their networks."
Collaborative Ecosystem
"Microsoft is excited to see Marvell join the Governing Board of
SONiC and are looking forward to collaborating with them to grow
SONiC into new areas, including edge networks, DPUs and storage, as
well as expanding the silicon ecosystem that SONiC supports," said
Dave Maltz, technical fellow and
corporate vice president, Azure Networking at Microsoft. "We look
forward to Marvell's contributions."
"eBay built a large-scale global network infrastructure and
deployed SONiC at scale as part of its open solutions strategy,
bringing industry collaboration and faster innovation. eBay is
excited to see Marvell's increased commitment and investment into
the SONiC community," said Parantap
Lahiri, vice president, Network and Datacenter Engineering
at eBay.
The future of infrastructure relies on innovative software
deployed to high-performance, power-efficient computing," said
Eddie Ramirez, vice president of
go-to-market, Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm. "By enabling
SONiC on its Arm-based DPUs and SmartNICs, and driving multivendor
adoption of SONiC, Marvell is enabling an infrastructure where
cloud and enterprise partners can reduce TCO."
"Most end-users expressed interest in being agile like a
hyperscaler, and SONiC is increasing in popularity to fill this
role. SONiC finds its roots in the very early days of open
networking," said Alan Weckel,
technology analyst at 650 Group. "SONiC will play an increasingly
important role in data center networking during each year of our
forecast projections. Marvell joining SONiC further validates
SONiC's emergence as an important element in data center
networking."
"We're excited to see Marvell join the SONiC ecosystem. As
storage fabrics evolve utilizing Ethernet as a transport, we
believe SONiC will play a big role in its enablement. Today, high
performance Ethernet-based storage fabrics rely on RoCE based RDMA
which requires a network operating system capable of managing it,"
said Bret Weber, executive vice
president, global engineering operations at Data Direct Networks.
"SONiC is a proven data center NOS deployed at scale enabling
RDMA."
"As a long-time member of the OCP Community, Celestica is
committed to advancing open networking solutions," said
Gavin Cato, head and CTO, Hardware
Platform Solutions at Celestica. "We are excited to
see Marvell become a premier member of Linux Foundation's
SONiC project and look forward to further innovation as they
contribute to the open-source SONiC community."
"As one of the world's leading suppliers of information and
communications products, Wistron Corporation has been investing in
open, disaggregated and cutting-edge infrastructure. We have been
collaborating with Marvell to provide highly innovative and
comprehensive solutions for end customers," said William Lin, EBG president at Wistron. "It is
great to see Marvell stepping up investments in SONiC, so customers
can benefit further from rapid innovation, industry collaboration
and open-source solutions."
"Aviz Supportability Stack with the Open Networking Enterprise
Suite (ONES) as its backbone is designed to enable SONiC adoption
in the enterprise," said Gautam
Agrawal, co-founder and CPO at Aviz Networks. "We are seeing
a pent-up demand in SONiC deployments for edge use cases such as
retail, campuses, and micro data centers. Marvell's ASIC is a key
enabler of SONiC adoption for edge use cases, and Marvell joining
The Linux Foundation as a Governing Board member is a welcome move.
It significantly increases the hardware choices for customers
looking to realize the potential savings with SONiC."
"Hedgehog supports SONiC running on Marvell Teralynx and
Prestera switches, DPUs and smartNICs with an open network fabric
orchestrated by Kubernetes," said Marc
Austin, CEO of Hedgehog. "We are really happy that
Marvell is all-in on open networking to make it easier for cloud
native developers to deploy their workloads on high performance,
cost-efficient data centers and edge computing
environments."
"By joining the Linux Foundation's SONiC project, Marvell will
accelerate SONiC adoption for new markets, strengthening the
collective effort to expand it beyond hyperscalers in order to
effectively meet the network design requirements of tier 2 data
center, enterprise, and the edge," said Leonid Khedyk, chief
technology officer at PLVision. "DASH, SONiC's response to the
emerging DPU market, is also expected to get a significant boost.
PLVision is looking forward to growth in the variety of hardware
platforms supported by SONiC and additional software features to
implement new use cases for our customers and the community."
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