New Product Release Announcement: Aviz ONES 2.0 – A Milestone for SONiC Deployments

ONES (Open Networking Enterprise Suite) stands as a robust network management and supportability solution explicitly designed to tackle the distinctive challenges associated with transitioning to SONiC, an open-source Networking Operating System. Our comprehensive suite serves as a multifaceted Network Orchestration, Visibility, and Assurance platform catering to the complexities of operating multi-vendor and multi-NOS Network Infrastructure.

ONES, initially conceived as a comprehensive solution tailored for the challenges of SONiC migration, has evolved significantly. With the emergence of ONES 2.0, a remarkable milestone is achieved.

Aviz ONES 2.0 release emerges as a beacon, making a significant milestone in becoming a genuine multi-vendor SONiC Deployments, operations and AI-Fabric platform.

6 Key Features that Make Aviz ONES 2.0 a Game Changer:

1. Deep Insights with Enhanced Observability:

• Advanced Topology View: Gain insights into underlay, overlay, and RoCE traffic Visibility in AI Fabric with an advanced topology view.
• Detailed Metrics: Access detailed Protocols, Health and Capacity metrics presented with time series graphs for enhanced visibility.
• Comprehensive Pages: Navigate through enriched pages for Inventory, Analytics, and Software, ensuring a holistic network view.
• Expanded Metrics: Unlock additional metrics for devices and interfaces, enhancing analytical capabilities.
• Quick Access: Swiftly connect with devices through an SSH button in the interface Down Widget.
• Firmware Insights: Gain deeper insights with a Firmware details widget embedded in the Software page.

2. Rule Engine & Integrations:

• Watcher Rules and Alerts: Implement Watcher Rules for devices and interfaces, coupled with configurable metrics.
• Collaborative Integration: Strengthen collaboration with Zendesk and Slack integrations, ensuring seamless notifications.

3. Enhanced Compliance & Device Management:

• Efficient Device Management: Streamline device management with syslog extraction, Console access, and Non-SONiC device controls.
• Firmware Focus: Access comprehensive firmware information directly in the Device details, enhancing inventory management.
• Data Handling: Export or download inventory with ease, simplifying data management.

4. Orchestration:

• YAML Configuration Templates: Simplify configuration with YAML templates supporting features like BGP, L2/L3 MC-LAG, EVPN MultiHoming, and more.
• Config Updates: Incremental updates for L2VNI/L3VNI configurations, ensuring efficiency in managing network changes.
• Backup and Restore: Enjoy enhanced backup and restore options via a user-friendly UI, ensuring network stability.

5. Network SLA:

• Performance Monitoring: Ensure optimal network performance with CLI Backend support for Packet Loss and Latency metrics.
• Endpoint Flexibility: Measure performance between any two end-points using ICMP or TCP, providing flexibility in performance monitoring.

6. Product Security:

Regular security scans, robust certificate management, user account management, RBAC implementation, LDAP integration, mutual TLS certificates.

Conclusion:

Aviz ONES 2.0 signifies a quantum leap in SONiC supportability, offering advanced monitoring, rule-based alerts, orchestrated configuration updates, and NW SLA monitoring with enhanced UI. Embrace the future of networking with Aviz ONES 2.0 – where innovation meets reliability.

Keep an eye on this space for our upcoming blog series covering these insightful topics:

• ONES 2.0 Release features: Complete guide
• Rulengine, Alerts, and Notifications
• RoCE Traffic Visibility in AI Fabric
• Detailed security compliance with ONES
• In-depth analysis regarding the measurement of NWSLA

FAQs

1. What are the key enhancements in Aviz ONES 2.0 for multi-vendor SONiC deployments?

Aviz ONES 2.0 introduces deep observability, rule-based automation, enhanced compliance features, and advanced orchestration tools to simplify SONiC operations across multi-vendor environments. Key improvements include Advanced Topology View for underlay, overlay, and RoCE traffic visibility, expanded device and interface metrics with time-series graphs, Watcher Rules & Alerts for proactive network monitoring, YAML-based orchestration for seamless configuration management (BGP, EVPN MultiHoming, etc.), and enhanced security & compliance with RBAC, LDAP integration, and mutual TLS.

2. How does ONES 2.0 improve observability and network insights for AI-driven fabrics?

ONES 2.0 provides a deep observability framework that enables real-time insights into multi-vendor SONiC networks. Enhancements include detailed protocol health and capacity metrics displayed in a structured UI, firmware insights widget for software visibility, expanded inventory, analytics, and software pages for a holistic network view, and SSH quick-access button for seamless device troubleshooting.

3. How does Aviz ONES 2.0 ensure compliance and security in SONiC-based networks?

ONES 2.0 introduces robust compliance and security measures including regular security scans to identify vulnerabilities, comprehensive RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) for precise user management, LDAP integration & mutual TLS certificates for secure authentication, and syslog extraction and centralized device management for compliance auditing.

4. What orchestration features does ONES 2.0 offer for SONiC network automation?

ONES 2.0 simplifies network orchestration through YAML-based configuration templates supporting BGP, MC-LAG, EVPN MultiHoming, and more, incremental updates for L2VNI/L3VNI configurations ensuring efficient changes, and backup & restore capabilities via UI minimizing downtime and improving operational efficiency.

5. How does ONES 2.0 help optimize network SLA monitoring and performance tracking?

ONES 2.0 enhances SLA tracking and network performance monitoring through packet loss and latency measurement tools to ensure network health, ICMP and TCP-based endpoint flexibility allowing performance testing between any two network points, and CLI backend support for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.

6. How does ONES 2.0 improve RoCE traffic visibility in AI data center fabrics?

ONES 2.0 delivers enhanced topology views and underlay/overlay mapping that includes RoCE traffic paths. This is critical for AI workloads that need consistent low-latency, lossless Ethernet. Real-time protocol health and congestion insights help operators optimize GPU networking at scale.

7. What kind of alerts and notifications can I configure with ONES 2.0?

ONES 2.0's Watcher Rules engine allows teams to set threshold-based alerts on device metrics and interface health, monitor protocol states, and receive proactive notifications via Slack or Zendesk. This ensures the right teams respond quickly to any network anomalies.

8. Is ONES 2.0 suitable for environments running both SONiC and non-SONiC devices?

Yes. ONES 2.0 supports hybrid networks with SONiC and non-SONiC devices. Its extended device management capabilities—like syslog extraction, console access, and firmware tracking—provide full observability across diverse vendor environments.

9. How does ONES 2.0 reduce the operational burden for NetOps teams?

By offering YAML-based orchestration, easy UI-driven backups and restores, and incremental configuration updates, ONES 2.0 streamlines day-to-day tasks. NetOps teams deploy changes faster, validate configurations in real time, and maintain SLA compliance with less manual effort.

10. What makes ONES 2.0 enterprise-ready from a security and compliance perspective?

ONES 2.0 includes enterprise-grade security features like RBAC for precise user access control, LDAP integration for secure authentication, mutual TLS certificates for encrypted communications, and automated security scans for compliance assurance.