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
WHAT WE DELIVER
01Current-fabric audit and tenancy model
02Engineered design + BOM
03Hardware supply
04Fabric build, ZTP and automation handover
05Acceptance incl. failover and tenant isolation proofs
06Documentation + IaC repository handover
07Support tiers
SIZING & TIMELINE
BANDSCALETIMELINE
S2–6 racks3–5 weeks
M6–20 racks6–10 weeks
L20+ racks / multi-site DCI10–16 weeks, phased
Outright purchase
เช่าใช้ 36-month service agreement
Design + migration-only engagement over existing procurement channels
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.
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IPNexia
BELGIUM · 2026
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.
An unnamed multinational e-commerce operator built an IP Clos spine-leaf network with VXLAN/EVPN on Edgecore 400G switches running Community SONiC. Edgecore's hardened community SONiC distribution provided a production-ready open NOS across the deployment.
