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The Sun Rises on Scale-Up Ethernet
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Jayshree Ullal: Oct 13, 2025 4:39:59 PM
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Generative and Agentic AI Networking Revolution
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 10, 2025 6:00:00 AM
Co-Authored by Fred Hsu, Distinguished Solutions Engineer The world of technology is in the midst of a shift, driven by the rapid advancements in...
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CloudVision: The First Decade
Andre Pech: Sep 3, 2025 9:00:00 AM
CloudVision was originally announced as a product on June 23, 2015 and now in 2025 CloudVision is officially ‘double-digits’! We received some...
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AI Networking: The Observability Blueprint for Modern AI Workloads
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Praful Bhaidasna: Aug 28, 2025 9:00:00 AM
The AI Revolution is Here, and It’s Accelerating Enterprise adoption of AI agents and applications is scaling rapidly, powering real-time...
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Demystifying Ultra Ethernet
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), of which Arista is a founding member, is a standards organisation established to enhance Ethernet for the...
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Next Generation SD-WAN in the AI Era
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 1, 2025 6:00:00 AM
The advent of cloud native applications in the 2025 era (CRM, SaaS, storage, or ERP apps) and the public cloud has caused a re-architecture of...
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Powering All Ethernet AI Networking
Artificial Intelligence (AI), powered by accelerated processing units (XPUs) like GPUs and TPUs, is transforming industries. The network...
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Faster, Smarter, Cheaper: The Networking Revolution Powering Generative AI
Praful Bhaidasna: Mar 12, 2025 6:00:00 AM
AI models have rapidly evolved from GPT-2 (1.5B parameters) in 2019 to models like GPT-4 (1+ trillion parameters) and DeepSeek-V3 (671B parameters,...
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Bringing SWAG to Enterprise Campus Networking!
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 3, 2024 6:02:47 AM
As client users, devices, and IoT continue to proliferate, the need for switching management and workload optimization across domains increases. Many...
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Arista-20 Years of Growth and Innovation
Kenneth Duda: Oct 18, 2024 6:00:00 AM
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Arista! Over that time, our company has grown from nothing to #1 in Data Center Ethernet, a highly profitable...
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Meta and Arista Build AI at Scale
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Martin Hull: Oct 15, 2024 10:48:32 AM
We are excited to share that Meta has deployed the Arista 7700R4 Distributed Etherlink Switch (DES) for its latest Ethernet-based AI cluster. It's...
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The New Era of AI Centers
Jayshree Ullal: May 29, 2024 6:00:00 AM
In 1984, Sun was famous for declaring, “The Network is the Computer.” Forty years later we are seeing this cycle come true again with the advent of...
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The Era of Microperimeters
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 30, 2024 6:00:00 AM
Paradigm Shift to Zero Trust Networking
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Wi-Fi 7: The Future of High Speed Wireless Networking is Here
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Sriram Venkiteswaran: Apr 23, 2024 6:00:00 AM
Enterprises are under pressure to meet and exceed the challenges of rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements, including AR/VR (augmented...
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The New AI Era: Networking for AI and AI for Networking*
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 25, 2024 9:00:00 AM
As we all recover from NVIDIA’s exhilarating GTC 2024 in San Jose last week, AI state-of-the-art news seems fast and furious. Nvidia’s latest...
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Navigating the Network: The Quest for Innocence in a World of Complexity
Douglas Gourlay: Mar 5, 2024 6:00:00 AM
Welcome to the digital age, where the marvels of self-driving cars and sophisticated AI like ChatGPT grace our everyday lives. Yet, amidst these...
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Accelerate AWS Access with Arista
Douglas Gourlay: Oct 24, 2023 12:15:00 PM
AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect and Arista CloudEOS integrate to accelerate cloud onramp As cloud and multicloud adoption continue to evolve,...
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The Era of Ultra-Low Latency 25G Ethernet
Martin Hull: Oct 11, 2023 6:00:00 AM
Back in the early 2000s, store and forward networking was used by both market data providers, exchanges and customers executing electronic trading...
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The Arrival of Open AI Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 19, 2023 6:00:00 AM
Recently I attended the 50th golden anniversary of Ethernet at the Computer History Museum. It was a reminder of how familiar and widely deployed...
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Network Identity Redefined for Zero Trust Enterprises
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 24, 2023 6:00:00 AM
The perimeter of networks is changing and collapsing. In a zero trust network, no one and no thing is trusted from inside or outside of the...
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Modernizing the WAN from Client to Cloud
Douglas Gourlay: Mar 21, 2023 6:00:00 AM
The evolution of WAN architectures has historically paralleled that of application architectures. When we primarily connected terminals to...
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The Arrival of AI Networking at Petascale
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 1, 2023 6:00:00 AM
The AI industry has taken us by storm, bringing supercomputers, algorithms, data processing and training methods into the mainstream. The rapid ramp...
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Cloud Networking Platforms - it's all about making choices!
Martin Hull: Dec 14, 2022 6:00:00 AM
Whether it is something as simple as what kind of coffee to order for your commute to the office, which route to take to avoid traffic, or in my...
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CI-Based Cloud Network Automation
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 3, 2022 6:00:00 AM
A pioneer in cloud networking for the last decade, Arista has become synonymous with elastic scaling and programmable provisioning through a modern...
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Introducing the Unified Cloud Fabric
Anshul Sadana: Aug 1, 2022 1:04:00 PM
In 2022 we are witnessing many forms of cloud networking pioneered a decade ago by Arista. Cloud models continue to take precedence through the new...
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Thinking Outside the Box for Network Acceleration
Martin Hull: Jun 1, 2022 6:00:00 AM
There is a continued push to go even “faster.” Lowering port to port latency while maintaining features and increasing link speeds and system density...
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The New Edge as a Service
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 29, 2022 6:00:00 AM
As we enter 2022, there is much discussion on the “post-pandemic” world of campus and how it’s changing. Undoubtedly, the legacy 2000 era campus was...
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The Migration from Network Security to Secure Networks
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 23, 2022 6:00:00 AM
Over the last few years, we have seen an age of edgeless, multi-cloud, multi-device collaboration for hybrid work giving rise to a new network that...
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The Next Frontier in AI Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 27, 2022 6:00:00 AM
The rapid arrival of real-time gaming, virtual reality and metaverse applications is changing the way network, compute memory and interconnect I/O...
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The 400G Era
Martin Hull: Nov 9, 2021 9:29:00 AM
As an industry leader in data-driven networking, Arista’s introduction of 400G platforms in 2019 intersected the emerging needs of hyper-scale cloud...
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Arista's Evolution to Data-Driven Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 2, 2021 2:59:10 AM
Arista’s EOS (Extensible Operating System) has been nurtured over the past decade, taking the best principles of extensible, open and scalable...
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Arista Partnering with Google Cloud to Deliver Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Douglas Gourlay: Oct 27, 2021 9:00:00 AM
Arista has a long history of joint development with hyper-scale cloud providers delivering innovative solutions for a broad range of customers. Our...
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Wireless LANS in the 21st Century
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 6, 2021 6:00:00 AM
The power and potential of the next generation cognitive campus are transformative as the industry undergoes a massive transition to hybrid work in...
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The Next Phase of Cloud-Grade Routing
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 24, 2021 6:00:12 AM
In the past decade, the emergence of cloud networks has blurred the line between switching and routing versus traditional routers. Today the industry...
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The Data Driven Enterprise
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 13, 2021 6:00:00 AM
The rise of cloud migration for enterprises with mission critical applications is redefining the data center. The reality for any enterprise: a...
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Redefining Low Latency Switching - Once Again!
Anshul Sadana: May 18, 2021 6:00:00 AM
Over a decade ago, we entered the high speed switching market with our low latency switches. Our fastest switch then, the 7124, could forward L2/L3...
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The Client to Cloud Enterprise
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 7, 2021 6:00:00 AM
Every CIO needs to adopt a cloud strategy typically moving some e-commerce workloads to the public cloud. Yet, the migration path for the modern...
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The Time for Zero Trust Networking is Now
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 2, 2021 6:00:15 AM
Arista is trusted and powers the world’s largest data centers and cloud providers based on the quality, support and performance of its products. The...
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Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021!!
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 30, 2020 6:00:00 AM
I don’t know about you but I am eagerly looking forward to the new year erasing all the negativity and losses that 2020 brought to our broader lives,...
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Looking Glass of Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 8, 2020 6:00:17 AM
Since the 2000 era, the network has changed dramatically, becoming more and more mission-critical. There are so many drivers powering today’s digital...
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The Arista 750 Series
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Nov 2, 2020 6:01:04 AM
Today we are introducing the Arista 750 Series Modular Campus switch, a next generation modular platform based on merchant silicon that delivers more...
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The Next Generation of Cognitive Campus Workspaces
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 30, 2020 3:01:33 AM
Campus networks are undergoing another massive transition in the COVID teleworking era. With this fundamental shift and as administrators consider an...
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Security’s Role in Client to Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 28, 2020 6:01:31 AM
The Networking industry is undergoing a metamorphosis. Modern networking operations teams are challenged to cope with multiple operational models. As...
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The CloudVision Journey
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 18, 2020 3:03:00 AM
Traditional networking has been transformed by cloud-networking principles. These principles drive an open, software-first approach to efficient...
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Journey Through Open Networking
Jayshree Ullal: May 12, 2020 3:00:00 AM
Arista has a decade long history of collaboration in open networking. We have pushed the envelope, co-developed open platforms and deployed them to...
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Next Generation Cognitive Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 22, 2020 3:01:00 AM
Just a decade ago, public cloud titans Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Cloud, became synonymous with elastic scaling, and software...
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COVID-19 Response - A Letter from Our CEO
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 27, 2020 6:00:00 AM
As a leading supplier of cloud networking equipment globally, Arista plays a critical role in supporting the cloud communications and computing...
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Cloud Networking Transformation Ahead
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 5, 2020 3:00:00 AM
Networking is undergoing a metamorphosis. Today’s operations are challenged to cope with the DevOps, NetOps, SecOps and CloudOps models that need...
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Beginning M&A at Arista
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 13, 2020 1:00:11 PM
At Arista, we have led both the disruption and evolution of networking technology as entrepreneurs with proven customer success. The pride and...
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The Road Ahead for Cloud Area Network Migration
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 21, 2019 6:00:00 AM
CIOs today mandate a ‘Cloud First’ or a ‘Cloud Only’ model for new IT investments with three different cloud models.
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Delivering a Multi Cloud and Cloud Native Operator Experience
Douglas Gourlay: Nov 5, 2019 3:57:53 AM
Right around the same time I joined Arista in 2009, Amazon Web Services developed the concept of the Virtual Private Cloud, one of the seminal...
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Bringing Cloud Principles to The Enterprise
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 17, 2019 3:46:52 AM
As legacy applications evolveto the cloud, hosted and multi cloud architectures blending on-premises data and applications with elastic scale-out and...
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Microsoft and Arista Cloud Decade
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 4, 2019 3:08:51 AM
As we celebrate the 5thAnniversary of Arista’s IPO this week at NYSE, we pause to reflect on this key milestone. Arista’s results are a tribute to...
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The Choice Has Never Been Clearer
Andreas Bechtolsheim: May 14, 2019 3:45:22 AM
I am very excited about our next-generation R3 Series routing platforms, which are setting new standards for throughput, density, power efficiency...
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Cognitive WiFi is Here
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 2, 2019 3:17:45 AM
Last August, Arista made its first acquisition, Mojo Networks, to transform the future of WiFi and campus networks. Just as Arista disrupted the...
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Open Cloud Networking-Redefined
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 14, 2019 1:30:08 PM
Networking vendors have long touted distinct routers and switches with different LAN/WAN interfaces for different customer use cases. After three...
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The Modern Healthcare Enterprise
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 5, 2019 3:36:01 AM
Until now the intersection of human healthcare and networking machines was somewhat loosely coupled. Healthcare has been historically stymied by...
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Tech Time is Real Time
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 11, 2018 3:36:38 AM
Silicon Valley is both an addiction and passion where entrepreneurs seek the realm of the impossible. Real-time language translation, fraud...
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The Easiest Way to go Faster is to go Faster
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Oct 23, 2018 3:59:25 AM
Why 400G Ethernet? In one sentence, because the easiest way to go faster is to go faster. Over time, Ethernet speed transitions have been the primary...
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Cognitive Campus - Next Frontier
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 16, 2018 3:59:25 AM
Arista’s focus on disruption, with datacenters and routing, transforming siloed places in the network to seamless Places In the Cloud (PICs) has been...
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Reflections on the Cloud Networking Decade
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 17, 2018 12:37:18 PM
When I joined Arista ten years ago, we were in the midst of developing a novel purpose-built software architecture from a clean sheet of paper for...
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Rethinking Security in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 21, 2018 4:21:16 AM
Every CXO worries about security because the perimeter is changing; in fact, there are no walls for protection. The lines between cloud, workloads,...
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The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 17, 2018 8:00:00 AM
At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create...
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Universal Cloud Networking with Arista 7170
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 5, 2018 3:41:11 AM
There is a shift happening in the world of Artificial Intelligence requiring a new breed of servers, storage and cloud networks. Artificial...
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Unveiling Cognitive Campus Networking
Jayshree Ullal: May 7, 2018 4:05:16 PM
At Arista Networks, the status quo inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent the network – from cloud to client. Today, we’re...
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CloudVision: A Cognitive Management Plane
Kenneth Duda: May 7, 2018 4:04:58 PM
The last 40 years have seen tremendous growth and progress in the data networking industry. Ethernet, IP, MPLS, GRE, IPsec, MACsec, and VXLAN enable...
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Cognitive Cloud Networking with Arista X3 Series
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 29, 2018 4:00:29 AM
At Arista we have always embraced open networking trends by designing our hardware and software to be as programmable as possible, driving the use of...
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The Future of Cognitive Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 27, 2018 3:03:44 PM
Artificial Intelligence, machine and deep learning have to be among the most popular tech-words of the past few years, and I was hoping that I...
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Good to Great: Hallmarks of High-Tech Leadership
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 3, 2017 3:02:55 AM
You are probably expecting me to write another monthly blog on exciting innovative technology. Today I digress and reflect on recent awards and...
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Arista Any Cloud Networking - Our Next Frontier
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 20, 2017 3:55:47 AM
The modern cloud networking world is vastly different from traditional enterprise IT, and the gap is getting wider everyday. How does one truly scale...
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Evolution from PINs to PICs Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 7, 2017 4:05:48 AM
Networking is simply so cool again after decades of static and stagnant silo designs. The rapid acceptance of universal cloud spine across a variety...
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Scaling Cloud Networking Up and Out
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 20, 2017 9:26:56 AM
The broad adoption of Arista’s 100G spines and the enthusiastic acceptance of Arista’s R series exemplify the demands of cloud networking. Leveraging...
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Managing the Cloud Network: CPM or APM?
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 10, 2017 6:00:00 AM
We all know the future of enterprises is in flux with the consolidation or demise of Avaya/Nortel, Brocade/Foundry, Force 10, H3C and BNT assets....
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The Catalyst for Cloud Networking with Containerization
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 7, 2017 6:00:00 AM
Today’s applications are connected both to users and other applications, increasing traffic and profoundly affecting performance. Recently, there has...
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Tap DANZing for Visible Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 1, 2017 6:00:00 AM
Networking is running blind. It is akin to driving a car in the fog at night without street lights, signs or a navigation system. Simply put, it’s a...
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The New Tech Economy in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 14, 2016 9:04:00 AM
In the 1950s, the introduction of jet engine technology revolutionized air transport, allowing for the transport of goods and people across oceans...
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Beyond Scale to Flexible Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 7, 2016 8:43:58 AM
In the early 2000’s a new generation of smartphones revolutionized the cell phone industry, eliminating the market for “flip phones,” introducing new...
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The State of Telemetry in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 23, 2016 3:01:51 AM
The hype of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and its associated analytics is alive and well. Many are advocating changing the way monitoring is...
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Transforming Silos into Universal Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 2, 2016 3:44:03 AM
We have witnessed a massive shift in the way applications are built and deployed, moving away from siloed IT to seamless workloads, workflows and...
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The Universal Spine Is Born!
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 29, 2016 4:39:03 AM
The rapid migration from enterprise to cloud, driven by the economics of scale, the convergence of local and wide-area networking (LAN-WAN), the...
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Protecting IP or Market Share?
Kenneth Duda: Feb 2, 2016 1:45:59 PM
It's tough times on Tasman Drive. Struggling to apply old technology to the new world of cloud computing, Cisco is potentially facing the largest...
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Next Gen EOS for Cloud-Scale Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 19, 2016 3:06:05 AM
As we celebrate 2016, and reflect upon Arista’s decade of innovation, the disparity between legacy technology and modern technology is clear, and the...
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Reflections on 2015 Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 15, 2015 3:33:02 AM
Our customers and their IT teams are under pressure to respond to new cloud-based applications more quickly than ever. The daily drumbeat for new...
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Connecting Clouds with Spine Internetworking
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 17, 2015 3:48:18 AM
As more and more modern applications move to hybrid or public clouds, the placement of these applications strains network infrastructure. It only...
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Security in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 6, 2015 3:29:34 AM
Enterprises are grappling with security in their infrastructure and many point products try to solve this in different use cases. As enterprises...
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Mainstream Cloud Networking with Flexible Ethernet
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 14, 2015 3:28:42 PM
Networking vendors have long touted distinct routers and switches with different LAN and WAN interfaces. Remember IBM Token Ring versus Ethernet? Or...
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Why Java APIs and Industry-Standard CLIs are Different
Kenneth Duda: Jul 15, 2015 4:45:59 AM
In the past few years, the tech industry has watched with increasing concern as various entrenched participants have brandished copyright law as a...
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The Game Changer in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 22, 2015 10:58:38 PM
The networking market is at an exciting pivot point, evolving away from legacy enterprise networking to the cloud. While the public cloud providers...
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Converged Cloud-Class Networking - The Next Frontier
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 2, 2015 12:06:30 AM
Scale-out cloud-applications continue to be the most disruptive force to traditional network architectures in the data center. They demand an open...
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Software Stack Choices in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 30, 2015 3:17:40 PM
The networking industry is changing rapidly with demand for more dynamic control of big data, and scale-out cloud applications. The inevitable shift...
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Arista’s Cloud Network Solutions Validated by Market Share Gains
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Mar 3, 2015 6:38:08 AM
We are very pleased to report a major milestone for Arista Networks. According to the just released Q4’2014 Crehan Data Center Switch Market report,...
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Relevance of SDN in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 10, 2015 10:30:40 AM
SDN (Software Defined Networking) is finally becoming clearer. It is not “Still Don’t Know” nor is it a specific overlay controller. Simply put, it...
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Arista is Steadfast in Pioneering Innovation – Despite Repetitive Accusations and Blogs - Charlie Giancarlo, Arista BOD
Guest: Dec 19, 2014 11:12:34 AM
I am on the board of Arista Networks. As background, I worked at Cisco for 15 years in its senior leadership as Chief Development Officer of over...
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Pioneers vs. Protectors in Cloud Networking Innovation
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 9, 2014 2:56:05 PM
The innovation of hundreds of startup companies created the Internet, and the Internet has changed the world. Innovation continues to have a dramatic...
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Litigation Does Not Grow Markets - Dan Scheinman, Arista BOD
Guest: Dec 6, 2014 7:45:14 PM
I am on the Board of Arista Networks which as you all know was sued by Cisco on Friday with claims that include something called the command line...
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Happy Tenth Anniversary Arista Networks!
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 30, 2014 2:27:38 PM
Every year at Arista has been filled with milestones and enriching memories. I want to acknowledge and thank each and every Arista well-wisher for...
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The Evolution from Products to Platforms in Software Driven Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 15, 2014 12:27:35 PM
Legacy networking vendors have often declared that they do not build “boxes” but actually build “systems and architectures”. I have tried to...
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Balanced Buffer Design for Mission-Critical Cloud Networks
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 12, 2014 12:00:13 AM
Leading customers and researchers in cloud and data center networking have been promoting the importance of understanding the impact of TCP/IP flow...
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The Impact of White Box on Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 30, 2014 5:00:06 PM
The adoption of cloud networking architectures by both the hyper-scale cloud companies and increasingly enterprise networks proves the need for open...
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ANET Cloud Infrastructure – Arista Definition of ACI
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 16, 2014 7:14:23 AM
You may have noticed Arista being uncharacteristically quiet throughout an imposed “quiet period” leading up to our IPO (ANET). While the industry...
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The Ideal Cloud Network: SDN Overlays, Underlays or Both?
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 10, 2014 9:17:27 AM
Enterprises are still a complex mix of legacy and newer cloud applications, yet smart use of universal SDN-based cloud networks is the great...
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Separating Hype from Reality in SDN
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 3, 2014 8:21:27 PM
Lately, two acronyms have been making the rounds: SDN (Software Defined Networking) and ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure - promoted by Cisco)....
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A New Cloud Network “Spline™” Is Born
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 4, 2013 8:23:10 AM
The dramatic shift to East-West traffic patterns within the data center is creating excitement, new customer requirements and many new three-letter...
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Redefining Cloud-Networking Resilience & Visibility
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 1, 2013 7:36:33 PM
In modern two-tier leaf-spine cloud networks, the increasing dominance of east-west traffic patterns, accompanied by the sheer volume of traffic and...
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Enabling Network Applications with VMware, Microsoft and the Ecosystem
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 26, 2013 8:38:51 AM
With the advent of the modern application era in data centers for applications such as business analytics and web services and the accompanying...
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The Software Choices for Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 30, 2013 8:04:47 PM
These days there is much discussion on “disaggregation” of switches or routers – the splitting of the hardware from the software, the control plane...
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Shifting from Enterprise to Cloud with the Arista 7500E
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 3, 2013 7:03:08 AM
The rapid adoption in data centers of virtualized servers powered by multicore CPUs, the deployment of petabytes of storage and the increasing use of...
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The Next Generation in Cloud-Scale Networking: The Arista 7500E
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Apr 30, 2013 8:55:09 PM
Today we are announcing our new 7500E modular switch, the fastest and densest modular switching platform in the industry, enabling cloud networks to...
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Bringing SDN to Reality
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 26, 2013 9:23:14 PM
It is difficult to get one definition of SDN - interpretations vary. The purist would say it’s a separation of the data and control planes using a...
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Celebrating One Million Ports of Software Defined Cloud Networking and Introducing the Arista Data Analyzer (DANZ)
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 12, 2013 9:12:44 PM
For the past 5 years, Arista has been setting the agenda for software defined cloud networking. We are not addressing the legacy enterprise market...
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Software-Defined Cloud Networking Reflections
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 24, 2012 9:59:40 AM
Every year I like to reflect upon my beginning of year predictions and compare them with the reality of what actually occurred. Once again that time...
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SDN is about Programmable Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 21, 2012 11:46:11 AM
The hype of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is alive and well. Many are advocating changing the classical IP model and moving to a network where a...
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The Many Facets of Software-Defined Switching
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 18, 2012 8:56:06 PM
In recent times many Software Defined Networking (SDN) advocates are seeking to establish a new paradigm of networking that better optimizes for...
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The Power of Programmable Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 15, 2012 8:54:12 PM
For past few decades, our internetworks have been built and have operated in a decentralized manner, thus avoiding the pitfalls of a single point of...
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Software Defined Cloud Networking Options: Overlays or Open Protocols?
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 15, 2012 7:28:42 AM
The recent rhetoric on SDN (Software Defined Networking) promotes overlay network controllers as an approach to the problem of scaling large...
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Ushering in the Software Defined Cloud Networking Era
Jayshree Ullal: May 1, 2012 5:42:55 PM
Since I last blogged about Software Defined Networking last year industry discussion on this topic has risen to the highest levels of exuberance....
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Application Based Cloud Networking - The Next Frontier
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 26, 2012 9:23:31 PM
Networking over the past two decades has mostly been about raw connectivity. Rarely have applications been tuned and optimized to truly take...
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The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 30, 2012 8:48:07 PM
As we enter 2012, the networking industry faces much need for a return to focusing on simplicity and standards amidst the confusion created by...
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The Role of 10GBASE-T and 40GbE in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 14, 2011 9:24:22 PM
10GbE continues to make strides into data centers. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth-heavy content such as video, high-resolution...
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Celebrating 1000 Customers for Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 10, 2011 9:44:06 PM
This month we are celebrating our third year of shipments at Arista Networks growing from 0 to 1000 customers in record time. We have outpaced the...
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The Four Pillars of Software-Defined Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 1, 2011 1:08:50 PM
Software-defined networking, an exciting buzz word these days really means different things to different folks. Often Openflow, ONS (Open Network...
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Cloud Networking vs Enterprise Networking – Are We Stretching Investment Protection?
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 1, 2011 12:00:57 AM
Networking vendors and the IT industry have touted investment protection as a key attribute for many years. This combined with...
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The March to Merchant Silicon in 10Gbe Cloud Networking
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Jul 19, 2011 2:32:08 PM
The inevitable march towards merchant silicon for Ethernet switching is continuing with the announcement from Intel today that it is acquiring...
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Big-Data is a Big Deal for Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 11, 2011 12:42:44 AM
Once again new applications are pushing the envelope for modern cloud networking, a radical departure from traditional enterprises! Big Data was a...
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Software-Defined Cloud Networking: Hype or Reality?
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 6, 2011 7:17:42 PM
I have been pleasantly surprised by the rapid adoption in data centers of cloud networking architectures in just the past two years. Cloud computing...
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Our Next Frontier in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: May 3, 2011 11:04:41 PM
When Arista launched Cloud Networking in 2008, many did not grasp its profound impact. Today it is an industry reality, with 750+ worldwide customers...
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Big Data Needs Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 3, 2011 10:29:37 PM
Over the past three years computing architectures have bifurcated, resulting in markedly different network architectures for legacy enterprise and...
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A Redefining Step in Low Latency Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 14, 2011 10:41:08 PM
The race to zero latency networking continues - millions of transactions in real time. It has challenged traditional constructs for High Frequency...
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A to Z Cloud Networking with Zero Touch Provisioning
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 14, 2011 4:00:39 PM
As Cloud Computing continues to become mainstream, the operational models around remote public and local private cloud management need careful...
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Is Cloud Networking Disruptive to Traditional Networking?
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 17, 2011 10:44:49 PM
The rise in cloud computing and virtualization is pushing the envelope of cloud networking scale. Several dimensions of networking have been...
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Cloud Networking Reflections
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 7, 2010 9:41:44 PM
As I ponder upon the many assertions I have made in my blogs in the past year, I know the reality of my assertions is much more pertinent! So lets...
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The Power of Extensible Open Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 31, 2010 9:25:45 PM
The definition of clouds continues to be both an evolving and important era in IT. Unlike the static and well-defined enterprise world of the past...
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Infrastructure is back: Reflecting upon Cloud Networking Trends
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 12, 2010 10:57:00 PM
We live in contradictory times of double-dip recession predictions and giddy evaluations (well done - 3Par Data!). So I am often asked for my views...
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Virtual Machines – The new unit for Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 24, 2010 2:27:12 AM
The rise of server virtualization has generated an exponential increase in virtual machines (VM), and in the associated virtual switches (vSwitch)...
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Applications are Driving Traffic Patterns in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 27, 2010 9:30:47 AM
As we enter the second half of 2010, I sense that an architectural shift in data center environments has begun replacing traditional constructs....
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The Power of Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 14, 2010 12:19:18 AM
The future of data centers is changing rapidly. Enterprise data centers are no more about basic networking connectivity where networking was driven...
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Arista 7500: A New Switch is Born!
Jayshree Ullal: May 10, 2010 1:02:59 AM
In my networking career I have been involved in a few generations of switches spanning multiple decades. The goal has always been a next generation...
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Arista 7500: the Fastest and Greenest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Apr 19, 2010 1:02:29 AM
We are witnessing a major shift from traditional enterprise data centers to much larger warehouse-scale cloud data centers. This is driven by the...
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10 GbE is the no-brainer in Storage Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 28, 2010 11:23:25 PM
I am a big fan and proponent of iSCSI or NAS protocols over 10GbE for storage access. It is the workhorse and unsung hero in storage networking. Akin...
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The race to zero latency in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 31, 2010 4:00:35 PM
The goal is millions of transactions in real time. Not an easy feat without a new class of networking gear and new architectures. It is changing and...
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Is 2010 the Year of 10Gig?
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 6, 2010 12:56:10 AM
As 2010 begins and we celebrate the onset of the next new decade, I would like to wish my readers a happy new year and also pose a question asked...
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Evolution of Switching Architectures in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 3, 2009 7:09:13 AM
As we wrap up this year, I do sense that the architectural shift in the datacenter environments has begun to change traditional constructs. As I said...
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Scalable Techniques for Multi-terabit Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Nov 2, 2009 2:48:34 AM
Current data center network designs are very compromised. They are based on blocking multi-tier designs with 50:1 over-subscription using the...
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Celebrating our first year!
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 6, 2009 3:31:10 AM
This month we are celebrating our first year as Arista Networks. We re-launched last year with our new name, our management team, and global...
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Virtualization & Cloud Networking: Connecting the Dots....
Jayshree Ullal: Sep 2, 2009 3:14:56 AM
As we enter VMWorld I would like to explain this further and showcase Arista's thought leadership. The widespread deployment of server virtualization...
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Virtualization & Clouds - Are they related?
Jayshree Ullal: Aug 5, 2009 2:51:42 AM
Frequently, I am asked about the relationship between Virtualization and Clouds. In one word, the answer is "yes", they are related. They are...
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The Symmetry between Gigahertz and Gigabits in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jul 14, 2009 3:30:33 AM
One of Om Malik's recent blogs I read in Gigaom was thought provoking (as usual!). It made me realize that we have reached a tipping point with the...
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Citrix and Arista - Two Pioneers Partner in Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jun 17, 2009 11:27:50 PM
Today's Datacenters are still separated distinctly by OSI stack layers. Layer 2/3/4 switching are typically implemented by 1/10GE switches and...
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Does Latency Matter in Cloud Networking?
Jayshree Ullal: May 17, 2009 11:49:51 PM
Cloud Networking has arrived upon us. Take server density on a scale never seen before plus compute demanding application workloads and you get a...
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Which Technology Will Prevail for Cloud Networking?
Jayshree Ullal: Apr 13, 2009 12:06:56 AM
As we enter this new era of dense servers and multi-core cloud computing, one must pay closer attention to the choice of the right cloud networking...
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The Silicon Choice for Cloud Networking
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Mar 27, 2009 12:30:18 AM
These days there is much discussion whether switches or routers should be built with proprietary custom ASICs or standard "merchant silicon" chips....
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How Robust is your cloud network?
Jayshree Ullal: Mar 1, 2009 11:14:53 PM
The IT industry has touted networking OS advantages for many generations. Cisco was the pioneer and leader in the 1990s with Cisco IOS, rich in...
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Cloud Networking Reflections 100 Days Later
Jayshree Ullal: Feb 2, 2009 11:25:28 PM
It has been 100+ days since Arista Networks formally unveiled our new name, Cloud Networking mission and our much talked about leadership team. What...
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Evolutionary Designs for Cloud Networking
Jayshree Ullal: Jan 20, 2009 11:26:58 PM
As 2009 begins, I have been thinking of how stale and stagnant the networking designs have been for the past decade, based on the classic three-layer...
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Cloud Networking: Blurring the silos between machines, networks and applications
Jayshree Ullal: Dec 8, 2008 11:36:56 PM
Since writing my blog a month ago, the fever on both Cloud computing and Cloud networking has escalated to new highs and the economy to new lows....
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My Next Gig
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 23, 2008 12:49:10 AM
It is truly my pleasure and honor to join Arista Networks as the President and CEO of the company. I have known founders, Andy Bechtolsheim and David...
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What is Cloud Networking ?
Jayshree Ullal: Oct 23, 2008 12:46:47 AM
I would like to shed some light on the networking requirements of next generation datacenters, based on cloud computing.