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Marvell Joins the Linux Foundation's SONiC as Premier Member
Company Deepens Open-Source Community Collaboration to Help Enable Open Networking Innovations SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell
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[{"type":"text","content":"Company Deepens Open-Source Community Collaboration to Help Enable Open Networking Innovations\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced today it has joined the Linux Foundation's SONiC and that John DaCosta, vice president of product marketing, Switch Business Unit, is now a member of the Governing Board. SONiC is an open-source network operating system (NOS) based on Linux that runs on switches. Marvell has joined SONiC as a Premier Member with the goal of extending SONiC beyond its initial use in data center networking applications to storage, edge, and data processing. Marvell intends to leverage SONiC-driven data infrastructure to open new market opportunities for the company.\n\"We are pleased to welcome Marvell to the Linux Foundation and the SONiC community,\" said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT at the Linux Foundation. \"Marvell's support for enterprise adoption within open-source is a welcome addition to the growing ecosystem.\"\nCreated by Microsoft for its Azure data centers, SONiC offers a full suite of network functionality, such as BGP and RDMA, that has been production-hardened within leading cloud service providers. It offers teams the flexibility to create bespoke network solutions by leveraging the collective strength of a large ecosystem and community. To date, SONiC has been deployed by seven out of the top 10 cloud service providers, while being projected to reach an overall data center market share of 21 percent by 2025, including tier 2/3 cloud and enterprise data centers, according to 650 Group.\nAdditionally, with SONiC's expansion into data processing units (DPUs) with SONiC-DASH (Disaggregated APIs for SONiC Hosts) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) enablement with PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack), it delivers a compelling open-source NOS that enables a unified and flexible control and management plane.\nMarvell's contributions to SONiC include:\nA whitebox portfolio of Teralynx® and Prestera® switch systems running community SONiC supported by software and hardware partners, increasing the availability of disaggregated solutions;Ethernet Bunch-Of-Flash (EBOF) solutions running partner-hardened SONiC for next-generation storage use cases enabling manag...