SONiC Newsletter - September 2020
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SONiC community has adapted very well to the new normal and working towards the 202012 release. Thanks to all the community members for completing the 202006 release and multiple design discussions for 202012 release.

A successful online SONiC eco-system conference was held on 19th Sep 2020, members from China Telecom, H3, Chia Unicom, Baidu, Juniper, China Mobile, Alibaba, Tencent, Asterfusion, Intel, Nvidia, Zhijing Lab, Centec, Nanjin HuaZhiDa talked on open source SONiC ecosystem.

Following are some of the news from our partners:

Broadcom Samples Industry's Highest-Performing Routing Chip at 14.4 Terabits per Second

Edgecore Networks Offers Commercial Support and Service for SONiC

  

RECENT EVENTS SONiC RELEASE UPDATES

NetDev Virtual Conference

17th Aug, 2020

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SONiC and Linux Slides


SONiC Eco-system Conference

Sep 19th 2020

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SONiC 202012 Release:
Community is currently occupied with the features planned in the Roadmap which is being tracked in Release Tracking. A branch will be pulled by end of December 2020 with the completed features.

Features Planned - AAA improvement,ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark,BFD SW 100ms interval from FRR,Consistent ECMP support,Console Support for SONiC (Hardware,SSH forwarding),Container warm restart,CoPP Config/Management, Uniform Firmware upgrade Tool,Distributed VoQ Forwarding,Dynamic headroom calculation,Synchornous SAI APIs,Extending Entphysicaltable MIB table,Extend FW debug info in sysdump,EVPN/VXLAN,Flow-based Services,FRR BGP NBI,Gearbox,IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered,Kubernetes,L2 Dot1Q tunneling support,L2 functional and performance enhancements,MACSec support in Chassis,Management Framework (Phase 2),MC-LAG (L2),Media Enhancements,Python2->python3,Multi-ASIC,Multi-DB enhancement-Part 2,ONIE FW tools,PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC,PDK - Platform Development Environment,PDK - Platform Driver Development Framework,RADIUS AAA,SONiC app extension,Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry),System health and system LED,Telemetry support for Multi-ASIC,VoQ Chassis Support in SONiC,VXLAN diff tool,VXLAN ping tool. etc.,

SONiC 202006 Release:
Special thanks to all community members who contributed to the Previous Release 202006.

NEW PLATFORMS SONiC DESIGN DISCUSSIONS

  • Alpha Networks - snj60b0-320f

  • Cameo - ESC601-32Q

  • Delta - ag9032v2

  • Ruijie - x86_64-Ruijie_b6510
  • Members are requested to follow the New Design Document Template for all design documents
    07 Jul 2020

    202006 Release update & 202012 Release planning

    14 Jul 2020

    202006 CLI configuration guide updates

    21 Jul 2020

    Multi-ASIC HLD

    28 Jul 2020

    Code Coverage Rate HLD

    04 Aug 2020

    202012 Release Planning

    11 Aug 2020

    SONiC Entity MIB Extension HLD

    18 Aug 2020

    Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture HLD

    25 Aug 2020

    Code refactoring to improve service container warm resart

    01 Sep 2020

    SONiC-Console-Switch-High-Level-Design

    08 Sep 2020

    VoQ HLD

    22 Sep 2020

    Kubernetes-Support for SONiC

    29 Sep 2020

    SONiC FW utility HLD