Top cloud and hyperscale customers are moving towards network disaggregation to reap benefits from the innovations made in hardware and software without the both being tied to each other. Innovium is working with these customers to build robust systems that are validated and tested with open source SONiC network OS. In other words, Innovium is creating a commercially backed solution based on SONiC, which allows customers to take advantage of this open source software with full support from a commercial vendor. In this interview, we sat down with Amit Sanyal, Vice President of Marketing at Innovium, to learn more about the new SONiC-based offering and also why the industry is embracing network disaggregation.

[su_note note_color=”#e4e4e4″ text_color=”#000″]Amit Sanyal has over 20 years of strategy, marketing and engineering leadership experience in the data center infrastructure market. Previously Amit was an Executive Director at Dell for 5 years where he drove networking solutions in the data center, helping the company lead an industry transformation to Open Networking. Amit also spent over 11 years at Cisco, managing marketing and product management organizations in switching, routing and server data center infrastructure.[/su_note]

About the Company: Innovium is a leading provider of high performance, innovative switching silicon solutions for Cloud and Edge data centers. Innovium TERALYNX family delivers software compatible products ranging from 1Tbps to 25.6Tbps with unmatched telemetry, low latency, programmability, and large buffers, and a feature rich architecture that scales to 51.2Tbps+.