Arista Networks Blog

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The Next Generation in Cloud-Scale Networking: The Arista 7500E

Today we are announcing our new 7500E modular switch, the fastest and densest modular switching platform in the industry, enabling cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines. The Arista 7500E is a remarkable 3X...

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Bringing SDN to Reality

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)

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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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