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Quick Take On Arista’s ‘Cognitive Cloud Networking For The Campus’ Announcement

Greg Ferro May 8, 2018

As I’ve been predicting, Arista is entering the campus space to look for more growth in the enterprise. The marketing push starts with high-capacity core switches combined with SDN.

As always, Arista has its own names for common things: spline = spine, cognitive cloud vision = intent-based networking.

Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced a new network architecture designed to address transitional changes as the enterprise moves to an IoT (Internet of Things)-ready campus.

Some thoughts:

  • Arista doesn’t need to do much to build a campus portfolio. It doesn’t have a security strategy like Cisco built around SGT, but there are customers that don’t want to move to SD-Access and be switched to recurring licensing. Arista offers a viable alternative.
  • “General availability in Q3’18” – Don’t expect to hear much until 2019.
  • Trident 3-based silicon is competitive for campus solutions. Whitebox switching has reduced the cost of DC hardware to affordable campus prices.
  • George Notter at Jeffries Securities notes that the average age of Cisco’s installed base of Cat 6000-series switches is 8 years. Arista believes it has a good opportunity to go after that installed base.

Arista Introduces Cognitive Cloud Networking for the Campus – Arista : https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/4608-pr-20180507

About Greg Ferro

Human Infrastructure for Data Networks. 25 year survivor of Corporate IT in many verticals, many tens of employers working on a wide range of networking solutions and products.

Host of the Packet Pushers Podcast on data networking at https://packetpushers.net - now one of the largest networking podcasts on the Internet.

Microblog: http://etherealmind.com
Personal blog: http://gregferro.com

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