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About Arista

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through CloudVision® and Arista EOS®, an advanced network operating system.

Arista launched in 2008 and is led by CEO Jayshree Ullal. It is recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Open, Programmable Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020 as well as in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Centre and Cloud Networking for many years.

The company went public in June 2014 and currently has more than 8000+ customers worldwide with more than 50+ million ports shipped. Arista is the leading provider with #1 global market share in the 400G & 100G market.

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Arista Cloud Networking Solutions

Arista delivers the most efficient, reliable and high performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G platforms delivered with an extensible operating system – Arista EOS®.

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Cognitive Campus Solutions (Wired & Wi-Fi)

Designed for the demands of the interconnected IoT enabled campus, the wired and wireless cognitive campus portfolio provides intelligent connectivity for all campus user workloads. The suite of platforms encompasses spline, leaf and wireless infrastructure platforms, telemetry and analytics, and a single image EOS for user desktops, appliances and IoT devices.

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Cognitive Wi-Fi

Arista’s Cognitive WiFi™ solution optimizes the wireless experience with best-of-breed hardware, including the latest Wi-Fi 6 AP family; the best Wireless Intrusion Prevention System that the industry has to offer and a robust Guest management and analytics solution, Arista’s CloudVision Wi-Fi provides the best value for money solution for Enterprise Campus deployments.

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EOS – The World’s Most Advanced Network Operating System

Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS®) is a modern networking Operating System, that has evolved to a network stack with a state and store based Network Data Lake (NetDL™) for multi-modal data-driven networking. It is open, modular and built on a highly programmable architecture with a single binary image used across all networks.

Arista EOS resilient state-sharing architecture delivers maximum system uptime, reduces capex and opex by simplifying IT operations, and enables business agility. Moreover, it offers programmability at all layers, including eAPI, EOS SDK, Linux, DevOps integration, and broad scripting support.

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CloudVision – Network Automation For Everyone

Arista CloudVision® is a modern, multi-domain network management platform for workflow automation, workload orchestration, and advanced visibility. It provides a turnkey automation hub for config and image management, change control simplification, operations compliance, and much more.
CloudVision’s open framework leverages modern APIs and state streaming as the basis for cognitive analytics, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, helping to diagnose and remediate network issues across both wired and wireless networks.

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Arista Monitoring & Security Solutions

Arista NDR Security – Delivering Unified Zero Trust Secure Networks

The Arista NDR (Network Detection & Response) platform analyzes enterprise network traffic and autonomously identifies, assesses, and processes threats—giving actionable insights for the organization’s security teams to respond effectively.

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Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric

Predictive, App-aware, Flow Intelligence for Pervasive Network Observability.
DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) is a next-generation network packet broker (NPB) designed for pervasive, organization-wide visibility and security, delivering multi-tenant monitoring-as-a-service. DMF enables IT operators to pervasively monitor all user, device/IOT and application traffic (north-south and east-west) by gaining complete visibility into physical, virtual and container environments. It enables simplified network performance monitoring (NPM) and SecMon workflows for real-time and historical context, delivering a one-stop visibility solution for on-premise data centers, enterprise campus/branch and 4G/5G mobile networks.

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