Microsoft: Building Source Routed AI Backend Network with SRv6

OCP EMEA 2025: Guohan Lu from Microsoft explained athow they build Source Routed AI Backend Network with SRv6.

He highlighted the benefits of SRv6 in the AI Backend to provide optimized load-balancing, fined-grained network control, and quick reroute upon path failures or congestion.

Guohan highlighted the SONiC extension added to support SRv6 AI Backend use-case. The extensions are open-source and available in SONiC and FRR mainline.