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Introduction

In recent years, "openness" has become a global trend in the network industry.
The increasing separation of hardware and software is enabling more flexible and cost-effective network construction.

This blog will provide easy-to-understand explanations of various technical information related to Open Networking for network beginners.
We will be running a series of articles covering everything from basic knowledge of Open Networking to practical usage, so please take a look.

latest blog post

Trying out industry-standard commands with SONiC ~Edgecore-SONiC Edition~ (Published July 23, 2025)

So far, the OpenNetworking Blog has discussed white Box switches and SONiC, focusing on Edgecore-SONiC (hereinafter referred to as ecSONiC).
As these standards become more widespread, we have received an increasing number of requests from various customers for support for industry-standard command systems.
For this reason, ecSONiC added support for the industry-standard command system CLI in version "ec202111.10" released at the end of last year.

In this article, we will discuss the results of testing an actual device to see if basic settings for a switch can be made using this CLI.

[Points of this article]

          ecSONiC supports "isCLI", an industry standard command system for configuration.

          Basic functions can be configured using either the Linux CLI or isCLI.

          We hope that this will broaden the reach of engineers who have been avoiding SONiC with the Linux CLI.


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Past blog articles

Series Number title release date
1st What is Open Networking? ~Comparing advantages and disadvantages with conventional networks~ May 10, 2021
2nd time [Ansible for Beginners] Automatically build a BGP cross-network! Starting network construction with Ansible Part 1 May 18, 2021
3rd time [Ansible for Beginners] Automatically generate network configuration files! Starting network construction with Ansible Part 2 May 25, 2021
4th Automatic configuration of white Box switches with OcNOS and ZTP May 31, 2021
5th What is Edgecore SONiC? ~Explaining the overview and features of the commercial version of SONiC~ June 7, 2021
6th White Box switch interoperability test ~Edgecore SONiC×Cumulus Linux~ June 14, 2021
7th Automatic network construction using ZTP x Ansible ~ A practical introduction to white Box switches for beginners ~ August 6, 2021
8th Implementation example using P4 language and FPGA Smart NIC ~NAT edition~ November 11, 2021
9th SNMP visualization of white Box switches using SONiC ~Grafana x InfluxDB edition~ November 12, 2021
10th How to visualize SNMP data using OSS ~Grafana x OcNOS~ June 23, 2022
11th Steps to create a network visualization dashboard using Grafana for beginners July 21, 2022
12th Network visualization for white Box switches using SolarWinds December 14, 2022
13th Network visualization of SONiC-enabled white Box switches using Aviz ONES July 5, 2023
14th White Box switch interoperability test ~Edgecore SONiC×Catalyst (L2 VxLAN_EVPN edition)~ September 12, 2023
15th White Box switch interoperability test - Edgecore SONiC x Catalyst (Symmetric IRB/Asymmetric IRB edition) - June 27, 2024
16th Trying out industry-standard commands with SONiC - Edgecore-SONiC Edition July 23, 2025

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In addition to introducing the products Macnica handles,
We provide materials related to open networking, such as BGP cross-network automatic construction files and network operation test evaluation reports.

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