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Network Operating System

Overview

SONiC is an open source network operating system based on Linux that runs on merchant silicon based ODM platforms. The open source SONiC project is at https://github.com/Azure/SONiC/wiki.

SONiC is in production today at multiple web-scale companies for data center fabric deployments and has a healthy developer community and vendor ecosystem around it. The underlying architecture of SONiC is here: https://github.com/Azure/SONiC/wiki/Architecture.

The Enterprise SONiC distribution by Broadcom is a commercial offering based on open source SONiC with feature enrichment and hardening targeted at Data Center leaf and spine/super-spine use cases. The Enterprise SONiC distribution by Broadcom supports ODM and OEM platforms based on the StrataXGS® family of silicon from Broadcom.

The Enterprise SONiC distribution by Broadcom offers benefits such as high performance and simplicity based on industry leading merchant silicon and standards based IP CLOS architecture. It also provides agility based on a flexible management framework with programmatic APIs and an extensible, container-based architecture. Finally, an open source foundation and standardized ecosystem provide strong economic benefits for a data center fabric solution.

 

Supported Platforms

Platform Name Port Configuration ASIC
M2-W6510-48GT4V
48 x 1G + 4 x 25G
BCM56274 (TD3-X2)
*M2-W6510-48V8C
48 x 25G + 8 x 100G
BCM56873 (TD3-X7)
M2-W6510-32C
32 x 100G
BCM56870 (TD3-X7)
*M2-W6520-24DC8QC
24 x 200G + 8 x 400G
BCM56780 (TD4-X9)
M2-W6920-32QC
32 x 400G + 2 x 10G
BCM56980 (TH3)
M2-W6930-64QC
64 x 400G
BCM56990 (TH4)
M2-W6940-128QC
128 x 400G
BCM78900 (TH5)
M2-W6940-64OC
64 x 800G
BCM78900 (TH5)

* Support for Broadcom SONiC official releases in Q1 2025

Platform Name
BIOS version
ONIE version
BMC version
CPLD version
FPGA version
M2-W6510-48GT4V
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6510-48V8C
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6510-32C
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6520-24DC8QC
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6920-32QC2X
3BARZA615
2023-10-23T10:47
N/A
CPU_CPLD 33231201
CTRL_CPLD 02240201
MAC_CPLDA 01231205
MAC_CPLDB 01231201
FAN_CPLD 06240112
7a322205
M2-W6930-64QC
5.14(3CNHU022)
2023-05-05T01:57
20230721100744
CPU_CPLD 16210909
CONNECT_CPLD 30220304
MAC_CPLDA 20220628
MAC_CPLDB 20220628
PORT_CPLDA 20220628
PORT_CPLDB 20220628
FAN_CPLDA 20220720
FAN_CPLDB 20220720
MAC_FPGA
7a640c08
PORT_FPGA
7a640d06
M2-W6940-128QC
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6940-64OC
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Platform Name
BIOS version
ONIE version
BMC version
CPLD version
FPGA version
M2-W6510-48GT4V
3BARZA418
2024-10-14T03:17+0000
N/A
CPU_CPLD 03240112
CTRL_CPLD 04240222
PORT_CPLD 00230823
N/A
M2-W6510-48V8C
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6510-32C
5.11(3BARB023)
2023-08-17T10:20
20241119032840
CPU_CPLD 27190516
CTRL_CPLD 55200720
MAC_CPLDA 21200408
MAC_CPLDB 19200623
FAN_CPLD 55200720
7a150102
M2-W6520-24DC8QC
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
M2-W6920-32QC2X
3BARZA617
2024-10-14T03:17+0000
N/A
CPU_CPLD 33231201
CTRL_CPLD 02240201
MAC_CPLDA 01231205
MAC_CPLDB 01231201
FAN_CPLD 06240112
7a322205
M2-W6930-64QC
5.14(3CNHU022)
2023-05-05T01:57
20230721100744
CPU_CPLD 16210909
CONNECT_CPLD 30220304
MAC_CPLDA 20220628
MAC_CPLDB 20220628
PORT_CPLDA 20220628
PORT_CPLDB 20220628
FAN_CPLDA 20220720
FAN_CPLDB 20220720
MAC_FPGA 7a640c08
PORT_FPGA 7a640d06
M2-W6940-128QC
5.28(1AZHA4714)
2023-11-27T07:14
20240716
BASE_CPLD 12230728
FAN_CPLD 04230504
CPU_CPLD 10230725
MISC_CPLD 11230721
MAC_CPLDA 12230614
MAC_CPLDB 12230614
LC_CPLD 12230614
7a5014a
M2-W6940-64OC
5.28(1AZHA5001)
2024-04-03T02:15
20240808060937
CPU_CPLD 24231208
CTRL_CPLD 07240726
MAC_CPLDA 02240527
MAC_CPLDB 03231204
MAC_CPLDC 10231211
MGMT_CPLD 04240620
FAN_CPLD 03240603
7a322901

Key Specifications

STP – PVST/RPVST+
PVST/RPVST+ over MC-LAG
Link Aggregation
Link Aggregation Fallback
LLDP
UDLD
IGMP Snooping
ACL based Layer2 Forwarding
DHCP snooping
QinQ
BGP v4, v6
IPv4, v6 Static Routing
BFD
VRRP
ECMP
DHCP Relay
OSPFv2
NAT
L3 IGMP
PIM SSM
IP SLA (ICMP/TCP track)
Policy Based Routing
Service Chaining
ACL based replication
L3 VLAN scale
Routing Subinterface
Route Maps
1M Route Scaling
Adaptive Routing (ARS/DLB)
Hash Algorithm, hash offset and ingress-port
QPN hashing (UDF)
Flow based hashing
Versatile hashing
L2 ACLs
L3 ACLs
L2 QoS Maps
L3 QoS Maps
Queue and buffer size configuration
Traffic Priority scheduling (Strict, WFQ)
WRED
ECN
Priority Flow Control
BUM/Storm control
ACL-based PCP Remarking
ACL-based DSCP
ACL-based Rate Limiting / Policing
RoCE V2
Telnet
SSH
SCP
TFTP
FTP
NTP
NTP Server, Authentication
SNMP Monitoring
ZTP
sFlow
L2
L3
L2 LVTEP
L3 LVTEP
Advertise PIP
IGMP Snooping
MC-LAG graceful shutdown
MC-LAG fallback
L2 VXLAN
L3 VXLAN
ESI based Multihoming
TACACS+
RADIUS
RBAC

Ordering Information

Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Broadcom is now available: Enterprise Base and Enterprise Advanced package.
For more information please contact your local Micas sales representative