Hardware Abstraction Layer for Network Infrastructure

Fortune 500 Enterprise Networking Vendor | Network Infrastructure

The Challenge

For decades, this industry-leading networking vendor faced a compounding engineering problem: every new hardware platform required re-implementing thousands of baseline features from scratch. Despite investing tens of thousands of man-hours building features once, they had to rebuild them for each new switch or router.

Baseline Performance:

  • •1 year to introduce a new product
  • •1-3 months to add a single feature (depending on complexity)
  • •3 dedicated teams required (control plane, data plane, QA)
  • •Duplicate engineering effort across 12+ hardware platforms

Our Solution

Opus Works partnered with their engineering teams for a 6-month engagement to fundamentally transform their development model:

  1. 1. Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

    Designed forward-compatible architecture making decades of features hardware-agnostic

  2. 2. Knowledge Graphs

    Built comprehensive knowledge databases using RAG to capture proprietary information spanning decades plus hardware specifications for current and future platforms

  3. 3. Multi-Agent System

    Created specialized agentic bot per hardware platform, each with deep expertise in that platform's specifics

  4. 4. Parallel Implementation

    Bots translate HAL to hardware-specific implementations concurrently across all platforms

  5. 5. Automated CI/CD

    Complete testing pipeline (unit, system, smoke, integration) with zero manual intervention

The Results

12x

Faster Product Introduction

1 year → 1 month

30-90x

Faster Feature Implementation

1-3 months → 1 day

12+

Hardware Platforms

Write once, deploy everywhere

  • ✓12x faster product introduction: 1 year → 1 month
  • ✓30-90x faster feature implementation: 1-3 months → 1 day
  • ✓Write once, deploy everywhere: Single feature implementation automatically spans 12+ hardware platforms
  • ✓Eliminated redundant effort: What required 3 teams now requires 1
  • ✓Future-proof architecture: Decades of existing features now compatible with future hardware

Technologies Used

Agentic Programming & Multi-Agent OrchestrationKnowledge Graphs & Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) ArchitectureAutomated CI/CD PipelineParallel Agent Systems

"Opus Works gave us something we never had before: true feature portability across hardware. They turned a decades-old codebase into a modern, scalable system and cut our product timelines by an order of magnitude."

— Engineering Manager

Fortune 500 Networking Vendor

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