Ciena?s Service-Aware Operating System 10.x (SAOS 10.x) is a common software architecture that provides operational efficiency and consistent system and service attributes for Ciena's Routing and Switching Platforms. SAOS 10.x provides automation-friendly intelligence and streaming operational data to enable network-level programmability supported by open standards, such as IGP, BGP, Segment Routing, NETCONF/YANG, and gRPC. As a disaggregated collection of functions, SAOS 10.x enables new functions and platforms, including 3rd party hardware and COTS x86 servers, to deploy functions as containers.