Arista Networks Blog

Exploring the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in networking

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The Evolution from Products to Platforms in Software Driven Cloud Networking

Legacy networking vendors have often declared that they do not build “boxes” but actually build “systems and architectures”. I have tried to understand what that really means. Undoubtedly, new applications on the Internet have evolved and now depend...

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Balanced Buffer Design for Mission-Critical Cloud Networks

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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