SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. It was originally developed by Microsoft and the Open Compute Project and moved to The Linux Foundation for continued ecosystem and developer growth. SONiC includes the networking software components necessary for a fully functional L3 device and was designed to meet the requirements of a cloud data center. It allows cloud operators to share the same software stack across hardware from different switch vendors and works on over 100 different platforms. Aviz Networks is the vendor neutral entity in the ecosystem that provides multi-vendor enterprise support for SONiC via ONES (Open Networking Enterprise Suite).