# 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

## Meet the Experts