Agile Services Networking: Scaling Across Data Centers and Workloads - PSOMSI-1186#

Krithika Moorthy (Cisco), Tim Hu (Cisco)

• Why: The newsworthy part is not the router — it's SONiC running on Cisco Silicon One hardware for DCI. A major incumbent shipping its own silicon with a disaggregated NOS is a real shift in the DC/WAN interconnect market.
• What: The Cisco 8223 router and Silicon One P200 processor positioned for Data Center Interconnect: deep-buffer architecture to minimize congestion and packet loss for latency-sensitive and bandwidth-heavy workloads, plus SONiC OS on the 8223 for AI networking and disaggregated architectures (from abstract only).
• How: Deep-buffer P200-based system design, SONiC as the OS layer, framed under Cisco's Agile Services Networking architecture.
• Where applicable: Largely a product launch session — throughput and efficiency claims will be vendor numbers. Worth attending for the SONiC-on-Silicon-One angle and buffer-architecture rationale, not for neutral evaluation data.