SONiC Capabilities: Empowering Networks with Open-Source Solutions

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SONiC Lite for Management
and Access Switches

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SONiC Lite Benefits OEM and ODM Vendors

Explore our lightweight SONiC distribution to gain key business advantages:

Expanded Hardware <br>Feature Set

Expanded Hardware
Feature Set

For customers' specific use cases in campus and edge deployments
Lower BOM Costs <br>Per Switch

Lower BOM Costs
Per Switch

Allowing you to offer more competitive options to your customers

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Key Functionalities of SONiC Lite

SONiC Lite for Management <br>and Access Switches Image Key Functionalities of SONiC Lite

SONiC Lite Feature Set

SONiC Lite comes with a pre-configured set of features specifically designed for access switches:

Management and Security
  • TACACS+
  • RADIUS
  • 802.1x
  • OLS Client
  • klish CLI*
L2
  • LLDP
  • xSTP
  • VLAN
  • LACP
  • DHCP Server
  • DHCP relay*
L3
  • IPv4/IPv6
  • Static routing
  • BGP *
  • OSPF*
  • ISIS*
Other
  • QoS
  • Storm Control
  • PoE++
  • ACL (L2-L4)
  • SONiC 202405 as baseline

*planned for Q3-Q4 2024

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SONiC Lite Hardware Compatibility

SONiC Lite offers compatibility with a current list of switch models, with more options being added regularly.

Vendor SKU ASIC Port Config
Company logotype ES-2227-54TS PoE and no PoE Marvell AC5X family 32x1G+16x2, 5G+6x25G
Company logotype ES-2221-54TS PoE and no PoE Marvell AC5X family 32x1G+16x2, 5G+6x25G
Company logotype ECS4650-54P PoE Marvell AC5X family 48x1G+6x25G
Company logotype ECS4650-54T Marvell AC5X family 48x1G+6x25G
Company logotype M2-W6510-48GT4V Broadcom 48x1G+4x25G
Wistron
ES-2227-54TS PoE and non PoE SKU
ES-2221-54TS PoE and non PoE SKU
Edgecore
ECS4650-54P PoE
ECS4650-54T
Micas
M2-W6510-48GT4V

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