TNO064: The Realities of Running SONiC at Scale

About this episode

Scott and Brett Lykins discuss the realities of using and maintaining SONiC in network operations.

Scott is joined by Brett Lykins, a Senior Systems Development Engineer at Amazon. Brett works with software-defined infrastructure built around SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). Together they dig into what it’s actually like to use, maintain, and operate a network this way. They also discuss not just the architecture, but the day-to-day ... Read more »

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Guest: Brett Lykins

Topics covered

• SONiC
• software-defined infrastructure
• network operations
• cloud networking
• network architecture

Keywords

• SONiC
• software-defined networking
• network maintenance
• cloud infrastructure
• network architecture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon

Products: SONiC

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