The incumbent's renewal quote arrived with a support cliff attached. You run a data centre; you know what a leaf-spine should cost, and lock-in is the only reason it doesn't. You need an open fabric with an operator-grade NOS and someone local who stands behind it.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT THE END
SONiC leaf-spine fabric on open hardware you own outright
SpineAS7726-32X (100G)as deployed in Edgecore's public SONiC references
LeafAS7326-56X (25G/100G)
NOSEnterprise SONiC / Community SONiC
OpticsET7402 (100G) · ET7302 (25G) · DAC/AOC
PROVEN IN THE FIELD
Operators run production SONiC fabrics on this exact hardware. Photon State designs and delivers this solution in Thailand on the same platform.
IPNexia
BELGIUM · 2026
SWITCHES
RACKS
SONiC
Belgian operator IPNexia replaced aging, vendor-locked datacenter gear with a spine-leaf fabric of Edgecore switches running Broadcom Enterprise SONiC, with Deca Consulting handling design, rollout, and knowledge transfer. The rebuild added zero-touch provisioning and NetBox-driven Ansible workflows so the network can be run as infrastructure-as-code.
IP Infusion and Edgecore announced completion of a full production migration of the LINX Manchester interconnection point onto their disaggregated switch-plus-OcNOS solution, mirroring the earlier LON2 architecture. The rebuild added redundancy where a single point of failure previously existed and was credited by LINX with cutting cost of ownership while speeding technical improvements.
