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Driving Innovation in Network Infrastructure: Key Advances from the Sonic Routing Workgroup#

OCP Global Summit 2025 digest Program Core pick 13–16 October 2025

Abstract Recording

Speakers: Patrice Brissette (Cisco Systems Inc.), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)

Play the recording: Driving Innovation in Network Infrastructure: Key Advances from the Sonic Routing Workgroup

  • Why: This is the "where is the open routing stack actually heading" session — BGP/datapath internals on the PM's list — covering real SONiC community work with named contributors from Cisco and Alibaba rather than a single vendor's roadmap.
  • What: A year-in-review of the SONiC Routing workgroup: SRv6 development and the Phoenixwing initiative, VxLAN Multi-Homing progress, upgrading Free Range Routing (FRR) to 10.x, RIB/FIB separation architecture, and the effect of the new mid-week workgroup meetings. (from abstract only)
  • How: Contributor-led engineering status and next steps for each initiative; the abstract names the projects but not their technical detail, so value is in the status/roadmap clarity.
  • Where applicable: General to SONiC deployments; RIB/FIB separation and FRR 10.x are directly relevant to anyone running or building on SONiC control planes.