Arista Networks

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

Powerful and scalable hardware

Arista provides a wide range of switches that support data rates from 1 Gb/s up to 800 Gb/s. This hardware enables the creation of scalable and powerful network architectures that meet the requirements of modern data centres. Scalable and cost-effective networks can be designed by selecting and combining different platform types.

Focus on latency and jitter-free connections

Arista Networks is known for its ultra-low latency and low jitter, which is especially critical in latency-sensitive environments such as high-frequency trading, AI workloads and data-intensive applications. Consistent network performance is ensured with innovative switch designs and optimised software such as EOS.

CloudVision for network automation

Arista's CloudVision® extends the architecture of EOS to the entire network and serves as a platform for workflow automation, workload orchestration and advanced monitoring capabilities. These enable more efficient management and monitoring of the network.

With additional options such as integrated Pyhton scripts, even complex workflows and automations can be easily mapped.

Open standards and interoperability

Arista relies on open standards in both hardware and software. This promotes interoperability with third-party solutions and enables seamless integration into existing infrastructures.

In summary, with its innovative solutions, Arista Networks offers a powerful, flexible and cost-efficient infrastructure for modern data centres that meets the increasing requirements, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence.

Merchant silicon

Another key innovation that Arista has brought to the industry is its use of merchant silicon. Legacy approaches have relied on building teams of ASIC engineers who laboriously release proprietary ASICs that are tightly coupled to proprietary software – creating vendor lock-in, increasing product cost, and limiting customer choice. Elimination of these gratuitous interdependencies and the associated vendor lock-in that they create are the roots of the movement toward software-defined networking and the basis for the Universal Cloud Network architecture outlined in Arista’s Software Driven Cloud Networking.

Arista has chosen to leverage an approach that uses merchant silicon and open-source software, which has delivered a more significant pace of innovation for networking gear. In addition, their merchant silicon approach delivers state-of-the-art platforms with increasing bandwidth and density and lower price points enabled by technology advances associated with Moore’s Law.

In particular, Arista has championed non-blocking network performance, constant cross-sectional bandwidth available through the use of open, standards-based network fabrics, and increases in density, power efficiency and support for new networking standards such as VXLAN without the need for wholesale replacements of network investments or commitment to a single vendor path for future purchases.

Merchant silicon has enabled these new capabilities and improved price/performance to be delivered in a market that had previously been constrained and limited by legacy approaches and vendor lock-in for over two decades. Arista has built EOS so that we can support multiple families of merchant silicon – which enables rapid and comprehensive innovation to the benefit of customers across our entire datacenter portfolio of products, both today and in the future.

Your dedicated Arista Networks experts

Nomios Luxembourg is an award-winning Arista Partner with advanced specialities and the distinction of multiple certified engineers on staff. Our engineers are recognised by Arista as technical experts and advocates of Arista solutions. That means you can count on Nomios Luxembourg for the technical know-how and hands-on experience to accurately assess your business requirements, and design, implement and manage an Arista-based solution to suit your needs.