Retail Networks for the AI Era with Aviz SONiC

Aviz modernizes retail networks with SONiC, AI-driven observability, compliance, and automation. Lower costs, boost uptime, and scale for the AI era.

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Rethinking Retail Networks for the AI Era

In modern retail, technology is the primary touchpoint between you and your customers — whether it’s e-commerce, mobile apps, self-checkout kiosks, or in-store IoT. The customer experience is now defined more by digital performance than by face-to-face interaction.
This means your network is no longer just "plumbing" - it's the foundation of sales, service, and security. And with bandwidth demands skyrocketing, AI-driven personalization taking center stage, and compliance requirements getting stricter, retail networks must be future-proof, vendor-flexible, and AI-ready from the core data center to every store edge.

Do These Questions Sound Familiar to You?

How do I scale my retail network for growing traffic and AI without replacing all my hardware?

How can I meet compliance and monitor every packet without overspending?

How do I keep my network always online and speed up store rollouts?

How can my small IT team manage hundreds of sites with less complexity?

Aviz Stack solved these challenges for one of the biggest retailers in the world

Retail Networking: From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs

Retail Challenges

How Aviz Solves It

Future-Proofing for Bandwidth Growth & AI WorkloadsSeasonal spikes, e-commerce growth, IoT, and AI workloads strain existing retail networks.

Standardized Data Center Fabric with SONiCScale from 10 to 400+ GbE without forklift upgrades. Save 40–50% TCO and reinvest in customer experience.

Compliance, Security & Observability Without the FortunePayment data, PII, and in-store IoT require visibility without breaking budgets.

Deep Observability with Aviz Packet Broker & Service NodesMonitor every packet for compliance, security, and performance across all sites.

Always-On Retail & Faster RolloutsDowntime kills sales. Vendor lock-in slows deployments and limits resilience.

Multi-Vendor Flexibility + FTASAccelerate rollouts, reduce maintenance windows, and avoid lock-in with proven multi-vendor automation.

Limited IT Staff & Complexity at the EdgeHundreds of stores, thin IT coverage, and tool fragmentation drain resources.

AI-Driven Operations with Network Copilot™Unify SD-WAN, firewalls, and store apps under one conversational AI interface to resolve issues faster.

Proven at Scale in Retailer Production

One of the world's largest retailers modernized their entire network — from AI-ready data center fabrics to edge store visibility — with Aviz's open, vendor-neutral solutions. The result? Lower costs, higher uptime, and a network ready for the AI era.

SONiC & Retail

Standardizing Networks at Scale: How a Retail Giant Unified Retail and Data Center Infrastructure with SONiC

Objective

Upgrade network with 1G Common NOS across DC and Retail, enabling AI/SONiC flexibility and TCO savings at scale.

Strategic Issue

Supply chain diversity, no hardware/vendor dependency, and open-source NOS for standardization and future innovations.

Problem

How to unify Community SONiC across massive retail sites and data centers, eliminate manual troubleshooting, and enable open, vendor-neutral management and observability at scale?

Solution

Aviz ONES: One skill center for data center and POS; Aviz certified ONES-based SONiC NetOps, CI/CD for multiple environments, Aviz Packet Broker, and dedicated SONiC expertise for high-grade SLAs and enterprise expansion.

Hardware Partners

Why They Chose Aviz

Industry-Recognized Neutral SONiC Leader: Aviz’s vendor-neutral stance and deep expertise across the SONiC ecosystem helped the customer evaluate and select the best-fit solution.
SONiC Development Expertise: Delivered custom designs and development tailored to the customer’s specific needs.
Proven, SLA-Backed Support: Aviz’s track record of supporting over 20,000 switch-years of SONiC deployments with zero SLA breaches built strong customer trust.
End-to-End Deployment: Managed CI/CD builds, ONES-based SONiC NetOps, and seamless deployments of Community SONiC across lab, staging, and production environments.

Key Results

Standardized the network with a vendor-neutral, open solution, ensuring predictable quality, flexible hardware choices, and reduced upgrade costs. Eliminated budget spikes by 50% and vendor dependency while maintaining enterprise-grade network performance and support.

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SONiC

Open-source network operating system for cloud, enterprise, and edge, enabling disaggregation and rapid innovation.

FTAS

Flexible Test Automation Suite (FTAS) for automated network validation, regression, and performance testing across multi-vendor environments.

ONES

Open Network Enterprise Suite (ONES) for unified network management, monitoring, and automation across diverse hardware and software platforms.

Aviz Packet Broker (APB)

A high-performance, white box traffic management fabric capable of traffic filtering, replication, aggregation, slicing, labeling, and tunneling.

Network Copilot™

AI-powered network analytics and observability platform for proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.