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Tomasz Sikorski

Engineering Manager

Tomasz Sikorski is an Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in networks and telecommunications. He is a highly motivated and experienced team manager, engineer, and enthusiast of new technologies in the IT and ICT industry. Following trends and innovations, he has gained experience in leading network engineering teams, specializing in network security, automation, monitoring and software development for network applications. With his knowledge, technical and analytical skills, and attention to detail, Tomasz is able to propose and implement effective solutions, oriented for customer satisfaction.

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Understanding Self-Organizing Networks: the SON essentials

In this article we explain the idea behind self-organizing networks (SONs), what they are, where they are applicable and how organizations can benefit from them.
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Tomasz Sikorski

on Mar 22, 2024
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SONiC adaptation for custom functionality — the PoC reveal

In the previous part, we introduced both the higher and the lower level concepts necessary for understanding the use case scenario as well as a proposed solution, starting from its prerequisites through to the design and finally the implementation. In this concluding article of the series, we want to eventually answer the initially-posed question: can we adapt a SONiC switch to be able to deliver a custom functionality? In our case, a load balancing feature for GTP-U. In order to conduct this PoC we needed to:
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Multiple authors

on Dec 28, 2022
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Enhancing SONiC — the process of developing custom network functionality

In the previous article, we introduced our reasons for exploring SONiC’s potential in terms of building new network functionalities, presented a use case, and described how we approached the task on the logical level. In this part, we want to share the experience we have gained through the development process. Note: please do not treat this as a comprehensive developer’s guide. What we explain here is our process and the key takeaways from it, which we believe might come in handy for other SONiC developers.
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Multiple authors

on Dec 16, 2022
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Developing custom network functionality using SONiC

Market analyses claim that in the future, networking will shift more and more towards so-called Open Networking. Open Networking relies mainly on hardware and software disaggregation, i.e. with open standard bare-metal equipment and a choice of independent NOS (Network Operating System). Such an approach fits with the main industry trends, like Software-Defined Networking, virtualization, containerization and of course, cloud computing.\Other benefits of open networking include: Flexible architecture
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Multiple authors

on Dec 14, 2022