Verity 6.5: Advancing Open Networking and SONiC Automation at Scale
The Verity platform has become a cornerstone for organizations that depend on open networking and automated infrastructure operations. It brings visibility, control, and lifecycle automation to the physical and overlay network layers. With each release, Verity continues to expand its reach into hyperscale, enterprise, and AI-driven environments. The latest version, Verity 6.5, delivers a focused set of enhancements that push network automation and observability into new territory.
Key Features in Verity 6.5
IPv6 Overlay
Support for IPv6 overlays allows network architects to design and deploy fully dual-stack or IPv6-only fabrics. Verity 6.5 automates the creation of VXLAN overlays that carry IPv6 tenant traffic, while maintaining the same simplicity of intent-based provisioning used for IPv4. This update ensures that cloud-native and AI workloads can operate in environments ready for next-generation addressing and scale.
Spine Planes for Hyperscale Architectures
The new Spine Plane feature introduces logical separation and aggregation of multiple spine tiers, making it possible to build larger fabrics without losing operational clarity. This capability enables hyperscale leaf-spine topologies to be modeled, validated, and provisioned with Verity’s centralized intent engine, reducing design complexity and improving fabric reliability at extreme scale.
Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
Policy-Based Routing provides fine-grained control over traffic forwarding decisions based on source, destination, and application policies. Network operators can now define service steering, security segmentation, or traffic redirection policies through Verity’s user interface or REST API. PBR extends Verity’s reach beyond topology automation into precise traffic engineering.
Tunable RoCEv2 Port Parameters
As AI and HPC workloads continue to push the limits of Ethernet performance, Verity 6.5 introduces configuration templates for RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) port parameters. Operators can tune settings such as congestion notification and buffer thresholds to achieve consistent low-latency operation across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
Port-Level IP ACL
Security at the edge of the network gains another layer of enforcement with per-port IP Access Control Lists. Verity 6.5 simplifies how ACLs are defined, applied, and monitored. Rules can be associated directly with interface roles, ensuring that traffic filtering follows device intent rather than manual configuration workflows.
SONiC RADIUS and 802.1x Features
With Verity 6.5, administrators managing SONiC-based switches gain complete control over RADIUS authentication and 802.1x access policies. This enables enterprise-grade identity enforcement in open-network environments while preserving automation consistency. Verity’s templates and orchestration model ensure that authentication services are deployed securely and uniformly across the fabric.
API Enhancements for Device Onboarding and Changesets
The Verity REST API has been expanded to support granular onboarding workflows and structured configuration changesets. These improvements make it easier for automation pipelines and external systems to integrate directly with Verity, enabling closed-loop provisioning, compliance validation, and automated rollbacks tied to version-controlled changes.
Threshold-Based Alarms for Time Series Data
Operational visibility now includes threshold-based alarms driven by time-series analytics. Verity monitors interface counters, latency, loss, and environmental telemetry in real time, generating actionable alarms when defined thresholds are crossed. This feature gives operations teams early warnings about performance degradation before service impact occurs.
TCAM ASIC Observability
Understanding hardware resource utilization is essential for maintaining predictable forwarding behavior. Verity 6.5 introduces ASIC-level visibility into TCAM (Ternary Content Addressable Memory) usage, helping operators identify rule-space exhaustion, inefficient policy distribution, or scaling bottlenecks at the silicon level.
sFlow Management and Configuration
Traffic visibility is expanded with full sFlow management capabilities. Administrators can configure sampling, collectors, and export parameters across devices through Verity’s unified management interface. sFlow data integrates directly into Verity’s telemetry pipelines, providing per-flow visibility for capacity planning and anomaly detection.
BFD Status Reporting and Alarming
Verity 6.5 strengthens network resilience monitoring through Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) status integration. Operators can visualize session health, loss events, and alarm conditions directly in the Verity dashboard or via API. This brings link failure detection and alerting into the same operational workflow as other telemetry data.
Each enhancement in Verity 6.5 builds on the foundation of open networking, automation, and visibility that customers rely on. IPv6 overlays and spine planes enable scale. PBR, ACLs, and RADIUS integration extend policy and security control. ASIC and telemetry improvements strengthen observability. API and BFD enhancements reinforce Verity’s position as a platform that unifies intent, configuration, and monitoring.
As data center networks evolve toward AI clusters, hybrid cloud fabrics, and SONiC-based infrastructures, Verity 6.5 provides the automation and insight required to keep them running efficiently.
Learn more at be-net.com/verity or contact BE Networks for a demonstration and evaluation.
Josh Saul
Vice-président du marketing produit
Josh Saul has pioneered open source network solutions for more than 25 years. As an architect, he built core networks for GE, Pfizer and NBC Universal. As an engineer at Cisco, Josh advised customers in the Fortune 100 financial sector and evangelized new technologies to customers. More recently, Josh led marketing and product teams at VMware (acquired by Broadcom), Cumulus Networks (acquired by NVIDIA), and Apstra (acquired by Juniper).
