# Retail Networks for the AI Era with Aviz SONiC

Aviz modernizes retail networks with SONiC, AI-driven observability, compliance, and automation. Lower costs, boost uptime, and scale for the AI era.

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## Rethinking Retail Networks for the AI Era

In modern retail, **technology is the primary touchpoint** between you and your customers, whether it’s e-commerce, mobile apps, self-checkout kiosks, or in-store IoT. The customer experience is now defined more by digital performance than by face-to-face interaction.

This means your network is no longer just "plumbing" - it's the foundation of sales, service, and security. And with bandwidth demands skyrocketing, AI-driven personalization taking center stage, and compliance requirements getting stricter, retail networks must be future-proof, vendor-flexible, and AI-ready from the core data center to every store edge.

### Do These Questions Sound Familiar to You?

1. How do I scale my retail network for growing traffic and AI without replacing all my hardware?
2. How can I meet compliance and monitor every packet without overspending?
3. How do I keep my network always online and speed up store rollouts?
4. How can my small IT team manage hundreds of sites with less complexity?

### Aviz Stack solved these challenges for one of the biggest retailers in the world

## Retail Networking: From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs

| Retail Challenges                          | How Aviz Solves It                                                  |
|-------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Future-Proofing for Bandwidth Growth & AI Workloads | Seasonal spikes, e-commerce growth, IoT, and AI workloads strain existing retail networks. | 
| Standardized Data Center Fabric with SONiC | Scale from 10 to 400+ GbE without forklift upgrades. Save 40–50% TCO and reinvest in customer experience. |
| Compliance, Security & Observability Without the Fortune | Payment data, PII, and in-store IoT require visibility without breaking budgets. | 
| Deep Observability with Aviz Packet Broker & Service Nodes | Monitor every packet for compliance, security, and performance across all sites. |
| Always-On Retail & Faster Rollouts | Downtime kills sales. Vendor lock-in slows deployments and limits resilience. |
| Multi-Vendor Flexibility + FTAS | Accelerate rollouts, reduce maintenance windows, and avoid lock-in with proven multi-vendor automation. |
| Limited IT Staff & Complexity at the Edge | Hundreds of stores, thin IT coverage, and tool fragmentation drain resources. |
| AI-Driven Operations with Network Copilot™ | Unify SD-WAN, firewalls, and store apps under one conversational AI interface to resolve issues faster. |

### Proven at Scale in Retailer Production

One of the world's largest retailers modernized their entire network, from AI-ready data center fabrics to edge store visibility, with Aviz's open, vendor-neutral solutions. The result? Lower costs, higher uptime, and a network ready for the AI era.

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## SONiC & Retail

### Standardizing Networks at Scale: How a Retail Giant Unified Retail and Data Center Infrastructure with SONiC

#### Objective

Upgrade network with 1G Common NOS across DC and Retail, enabling AI/SONiC flexibility and TCO savings at scale.

#### Strategic Issue

Supply chain diversity, no hardware/vendor dependency, and open-source NOS for standardization and future innovations.

#### Problem

How to unify Community SONiC across massive retail sites and data centers, eliminate manual troubleshooting, and enable open, vendor-neutral management and observability at scale?

#### Solution

Aviz ONES: One skill center for data center and POS; Aviz certified ONES-based SONiC NetOps, CI/CD for multiple environments, Aviz Packet Broker, and dedicated SONiC expertise for high-grade SLAs and enterprise expansion.

### Why They Chose Aviz

- Industry-Recognized Neutral SONiC Leader: Aviz’s vendor-neutral stance and deep expertise across the SONiC ecosystem helped the customer evaluate and select the best-fit solution.
- SONiC Development Expertise: Delivered custom designs and development tailored to the customer’s specific needs.
- Proven, SLA-Backed Support: Aviz’s track record of supporting over 20,000 switch-years of SONiC deployments with zero SLA breaches built strong customer trust.
- End-to-End Deployment: Managed CI/CD builds, ONES-based SONiC NetOps, and seamless deployments of Community SONiC across lab, staging, and production environments.

### Key Results

Standardized the network with a vendor-neutral, open solution, ensuring predictable quality, flexible hardware choices, and reduced upgrade costs. Eliminated budget spikes by 50% and vendor dependency while maintaining enterprise-grade network performance and support.

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### Resources Hub

- **SONiC**: Open-source network operating system for cloud, enterprise, and edge, enabling disaggregation and rapid innovation.  
  [Learn More](/content/sonic/index.html)  
- **FTAS**: Flexible Test Automation Suite (FTAS) for automated network validation, regression, and performance testing across multi-vendor environments.  
  [Learn More](/content/ftas/index.html)  
- **ONES**: Open Network Enterprise Suite (ONES) for unified network management, monitoring, and automation across diverse hardware and software platforms.  
  [Learn More](/content/ones/index.html)  
- **Aviz Packet Broker (APB)**: A high-performance, white box traffic management fabric capable of traffic filtering, replication, aggregation, slicing, labeling, and tunneling.  
  [Read Now](/content/apb/index.html)  
- **Network Copilot™**: AI-powered network analytics and observability platform for proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.  
  [Learn More](/content/networkcopilot/index.html)