{"slug": "cisco-making-sonic-available-to-all-customers-not-just-hyperscalers", "title": "Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers", "summary": "Cisco is making its SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) operating system available to all customers, expanding access beyond the hyperscale cloud providers that originally developed the open-source network OS. The move aims to give enterprise and mid-market customers the same disaggregated networking capabilities that large cloud operators use, allowing them to decouple network hardware from software. 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