Celestica, a leading company in high-reliability design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions, and PLVision, a networking software product development company, are excited to announce a partnership to advance the SONiC Lite Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) end extend the range of use cases for SONiC Lite NOS. As part of this collaboration, Celestica’s ES1000-48P and ES1000-48CP switches now support SONiC Lite, an enterprise distribution of SONiC by PLVision for data center, edge, and campus deployments. It helps address critical pain points such as hardware and software vendor lock-in, high costs, and scalability issues by providing a modern, ready-to-go networking solution. More importantly, these platforms enable MACsec implementation, bringing hardware-accelerated Layer 2 encryption to enterprise environments.
Celestica ES1000 Hardware Details
The Celestica ES1000-48P and ES1000-48CP are high-performance 1GbE access switches from the ES1000 series, powered by the Marvell AC5X chipset. They stand out with their flexible CPU options and robust PSU configurations, catering to environments requiring high processing power and substantial PoE capabilities. Both feature 24 / 48 ports 1000Base-T (RJ45) and 4 ports 1GbE / 10GbE / 25GbE (SFP28), delivering up to 148Gbps of non-blocking switching capacity.
Designed for reliability and efficiency, these compact 1U form factor platforms come with redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fixed fans supporting forward and reverse airflow configurations. The ES1000-48P and ES1000-48CP switches also offer 90W per port PoE++ support.
Celestica’s ES1000 series exemplifies engineering excellence, featuring high-reliability components such as redundant power supplies, an integrated A55 ARM CPU (with an optional Intel Denverton x86 CPU), and advanced encryption with 256-bit MACsec. These attributes make the ES1000-48P and ES1000-48CP ideal for campus, edge, and data center use cases.
SONiC Lite HCL, Benefits, and Outlook
SONiC Lite, an enterprise distribution by PLVision, leverages Community SONiC as its baseline to support a broader range of platforms and empower organizations with regular updates, security patches, and ongoing feature development. By deploying SONiC Lite at the access layer and Community SONiC at the distribution and core layers, businesses can create a unified network environment. This approach not only boosts performance and sustainability but also improves cost efficiency by optimizing the network’s Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Adding Celestica’s ES1000-48P and ES1000-48CP to our SONiC Lite HCL is a major milestone in our mission to broaden the adoption of SONiC-based solutions. This advancement enables the implementation of MACsec on hardware platforms, bringing the reliability, scalability, and advanced capabilities required to support secure, hardware-accelerated encryption at the network edge. Together, PLVision and Celestica are ensuring that enterprises can now deploy SONiC Lite with MACsec functionality on robust, field-proven platforms – making high-assurance Layer 2 security more accessible and operationally efficient.
By combining the flexibility of open networking with the built-in security capabilities of Celestica’s ES1000 switches, our solution is ideally suited to meet the rigorous demands of organizations operating in regulated industries, distributed environments, and campus networks.
PLVision continues to introduce new features and expand SONiC Lite’s hardware compatibility, thereby improving its vendor-agnostic approach and expanding platform choice. With MACsec now integrated and validated on Celestica hardware, SONiC Lite becomes an even more attractive option for enterprises seeking to future-proof their network infrastructure and stay ahead of evolving cybersecurity threats.
About Celestica
Celestica enables the world’s best brands. Through a recognized customer-centric approach, the company partners with leading organizations in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, and Capital Equipment to deliver solutions for the most complex challenges. Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, the company imagines, develops, and delivers a better future for customers.
About PLVision
As a European leader in open, disaggregated technologies, PLVision delivers custom vendor-agnostic software networking solutions, giving you full control, lower costs, and future ready scalability. We offer complete solutions, from A to Z. No matter who you are – a startup or an enterprise – we will become your magic wand.
About SONiC Lite
SONiC Lite is an enterprise distribution of SONiC by PLVision for cost-effective management and access platforms in data center, edge, and campus deployments. SONiC Lite enables the construction of networks using less demanding and widely compatible networking equipment while remaining hardware vendor-neutral and contains all the key features of SONiC needed for your use case (L2 switching, L3 routing, security, etc.).