SONIC- start up Aviz of San Jose announced this week its latest funding round, now reaching $10M, to work to accelerate customer momentum for its multi-vendor, GenAI-based networking stack along with adoption of SONiC based open networking
CEO Vishal Shukla quoted in SDX Central:
“Our DNA is community-first. We want to make sure SONiC remains community-driven. Customers, even Cisco for that matter, have partnered with us because they are seeing this shift in the market and they see it [SONiC OS] as the next Linux of the industry.”
650 Group Predicts The Overall SONiC Market (Data center/Enterprise categories) to Reach $5B by 2026.

Aviz Co-Founder and CEO Vishal Shukla
Related reading: Industrial Ethernet Switching Forecasted to Outpace Data Center Switching & Campus Switching Markets Over Next 5 Years and SONiC Market to Exceed $5B in 2026 for Data Center Switching; According to 650 Group.