Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-defined cloud networking solutions for large data centre and computing environments. With more than one million cloud networking ports being deployed worldwide, Arista offers a portfolio of Gigabit Ethernet solutions including 1/10/40 and 100GbE switches that redefine network architectures and dramatically change the price/performance of data centre networks.
Arista was founded in 2004, launched in 2008 and is led by Jayshree Ullal. The company was founded by industry luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton and Kenneth Duda. This seasoned management team has decades of deep experience in networking and innovation.
Arista has a prestigious set of customers, including leading global technology companies in financials, web 2.0 and cloud/service providers, building public and private cloud computing systems. Arista builds scalable data centres and delivers products worldwide though distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success.
Arista’s crown jewel, EOS, is the most advanced network operating system to enable open third party development. The award-winning software is built upon a stable, open source Linux core with a central state-oriented database that makes EOS inherently self-healing, in-service upgradeable and extremely robust.
Arista Networks is the leader in building scalable, high-performance and ultra-low latency cloud networks with low power consumption and a small footprint for modern data centre and cloud computing environments. Purpose-built hardware with Arista 7000 family and Arista EOS, maximize system uptime, statefull fault repair, Advanced Event Management, Zero Touch Provisioning, latency analysis and a fully accessible Linux shell. Arista’s Ethernet switching solutions include native support for VMware, network-virtualization and hundreds of applications. Arista’s hardware platforms are designed to meet the stringent power and cooling requirements of today’s most demanding data centres, proven advantages in use in many of the largest cloud data centres around the world.
