SONiC on Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Release 202411.1.1.0

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SONiC on Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Release 202411.1.1.0. 3

What’s new. 3

Supported hardware. 3

System requirements. 3

Related documentation, tools, and matrices. 4

Legal information. 5

 

 

SONiC on Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Release 202411.1.1.0

This release introduces support for SONiC 202411 on the Cisco 8000 Series Routers.

What’s new

New software features

There are no new software features in this release.

Supported hardware

In this release, Cisco supports installing Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) on these Product IDs on the Cisco 8000 series routers:

Table 1.           Supported Product IDs for SONiC 202411

Product ID               

Description

8101-32FH-O                                 

Cisco 8100 1 RU Chassis with 32x400G QSFP56-DD with Open Software and without HBM on Q200 Silicon.

8101-32FH-O-C01                         

Cisco 8100 1 RU Chassis with 32x400G QSFP-DD, Open Software, and without HBM on Q200 Silicon.

8102-64H-O                                   

Cisco 8100 2 RU Chassis with 64x100G QSFP28 with Open Software and without HBM on Q200 Silicon.

 

System requirements

This table outlines the versions of various components included in this release:

Table 2.           Component version for SONiC 202411

Component

Version          

Linux Kernel

6.1.0-29-2-amd64

SAI API

1.15.0

FRR

10.0.1-sonic-0

LLDP

1.0.16-1+deb12u1

TeamD

1.31-1

SNMPD

5.9.3+dfsg-2

Python

3.11.2-1+b1

SYNCD

1.0.0

swss

1.0.0

Radvd

1:2.19-1+b1

ISC-DHCP

4.4.3-P1-2

sonic-gnmi version

0.1

redis-server

5:7.0.15-1~deb12u3

redis-tools version

5:7.0.15-1~deb12u3

eventd version

1.0.0-0

mgmt-framework version

1.0-01

 

Related documentation, tools, and matrices

Table 3.           Additional content

Document

Description

Explore SONiC on Cisco 8000 Series Routers

Provides documentation for installing and deploying SONiC on Cisco 8000 Series Routers.

 

Explore Cisco 8000 SONiC on Interactive Python Notebooks

Introduces use-case-based documentation for SONiC through Learning Labs, offering guidance on use cases and configurations to facilitate deployment. Additionally, it enables experimentation and customization to meet specific network requirements.

Install SONiC on Cisco 8000 Routers

Provides guidance on installing a new SONiC image on Cisco 8000 series routers, covering two installation methods: Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) and the sonic-installer command.

Cisco 8000 Series Routers Data Sheet

Provides detailed specifications and feature information for Cisco 8000 Series Routers in the Data Sheet.

Cisco Software Download Center

Provides SONiC image download options for Cisco 8000 Series Routers.

 

 

Legal information

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Any Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and phone numbers used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses and phone numbers. Any examples, command display output, network topology diagrams, and other figures included in the document are shown for illustrative purposes only. Any use of actual IP addresses or phone numbers in illustrative content is unintentional and coincidental.

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