Event - Aviz Networks | Aviz Networks
AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
April 22-25, 2025
Speakers
Thomas Scheibe
Chief Product Officer, Aviz Networks
Thomas has 25+ years leading high-performance teams and business transformations. At Cisco he led DC product management (Nexus, ACI), launched Cisco’s first SONiC offer, built a DC software subscription business, and created the blueprint for enterprise DC AI network fabrics. At Intel, as VP/GM, he led the IPU/DPU and Ethernet NIC portfolio for AI and cloud infrastructure.
Ravi Kumar
Sr. Solution Architect, Aviz Networks
Ravi Kumar is a Solution Architect specializing in automated, scalable network and AI infrastructure. With deep expertise in SONiC, BGP EVPN/VxLAN overlays, and cloud-native architectures, he designs validation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that reduce deployment times by up to 50%. He architects GPU clusters for LLM fine-tuning and inference, driving performance gains and operational efficiency.
Khurram Khani
VP of Customer Success, Aviz Networks
Khurram Khani is a technology leader with ~20 years in data networking, cloud, and open source. He has led large-scale data center transformations and now drives Customer Success at Aviz, helping make SONiC/open networking and generative AI accessible to a broad audience.
AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 — Aviz Networks
AI workloads demand more from networks: distinct front-end/back-end paths, differentiated QoS, and tight coordination between compute and the fabric. This session details how enterprises can configure, observe, and operate AI workloads at scale using NVIDIA Spectrum-X and open networking with SONiC, powered by Aviz ONES for orchestration and Day 2 operations.
Key Outcomes
- Introduction — Networks for AI: What’s New Why AI fabrics differ from traditional DC networks: separate traffic planes, RoCE considerations, in-network compute awareness, and the need for closed-loop telemetry.
- Enterprise Challenges: The operational gap around automation and orchestration to accelerate deployment, service activation, and expansion across heterogeneous environments. Two common paths are highlighted: Adopting NVIDIA Spectrum-X via a proven reference architecture.
- Building an open networking fabric with SONiC for maximum flexibility.
- **Customer Workflow (End-to-End)**Design & Sizing: POD topology, oversubscription targets, QoS domains, and failure domains.
- Day 0: Fabric bring-up, BGP control-plane activation, lossless QoS (PFC/ECN), policy baselines.
- Day 1: Tenant onboarding, segmentation, RBAC, and change-safe rollouts.
- Day 2: Scaling, alert management, intent drift detection, and guided troubleshooting.
- Demo Walkthrough: SONiC in ONES: Day 0 orchestration (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, lossless QoS) and Day 2 observability across network, compute, and GPUs, with health correlations and actionable alerts.
- Spectrum-X with NVIDIA Air + ONES: Reference-architecture-aligned bring-up, service unit creation spanning compute & network, and streamlined Day-2 operations (telemetry, SLO tracking).
- Wrap-Up — What ONES Adds: Centralized, multi-vendor management across SONiC, Cumulus, and Spectrum-X; Day 0–2 workflows; multi-tenancy planning; GPU/NICs as first-class monitored assets; and automation that reduces MTTD/MTTR.
- Open Q&A: Architecture trade-offs, migration patterns, and operational guardrails.
- Date: April 25, 2025
- Time: 8:00 AM Pacific Time
- Topics: Networks for AI (what’s new), enterprise deployment paths, full Day 0/1/2 workflow, demo (SONiC in ONES & Spectrum-X with NVIDIA Air + ONES), and ONES value summary.
- Understand design differences for AI fabrics and how to align with workload SLOs.
- See how ONES accelerates Day 0 bring-up and de-risks Day 1 changes.
- Adopt Day 2 practices that correlate GPU/NIC health with fabric behavior for faster MTTR.
- Choose the right path: Spectrum-X RA vs. open, multi-vendor SONiC — or a hybrid.
Live Presentation Details
You’ll also learn how to engage 1:1 with Aviz experts to make your environment AI-ready, whether you’re standardizing on the Spectrum-X reference architecture or pursuing a multi-vendor, SONiC-based fabric.
Event: AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
Dates: April 22–25, 2025
Live Presentation: April 25, 2025 @ 8:00 AM PT