Arista Networks Blog

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

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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 networks. For decades however, we have all built good and familiar L2 and L3 networks and have been scaling...

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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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The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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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