"The decision to go with Arista also gave us an opportunity to revaluate our architecture and start to take advantage of extensibility features within the platform such as buffer monitoring, that offer us more visibility over traffic flow, and to take proactive capacity planning measures to avoid any future issues.”

"As we looked to create the finest Cloud Services offering to our customers we wanted to build this on best of breed products. Arista has proven to be truly best of breed with their 10Gb Ethernet switches. The combination of port density, low power consumption and robust high quality software …

“We eventually decided upon an Arista based leaf and spine network supported by VMware for application, network and storage virtualisation as together they offered the best combination of performance and reliability within a significantly simpler design. We also worked with a local Arista partner, UCS, to ensure we always had …

"SDN is an important initiative that can benefit our customers by allowing the intelligence derived from our monitoring systems to be leveraged for a higher level of control when managing network behavior and performance. With this new announcement, Arista continues to make significant advancements in delivering on the promise of …

“We were building out 10 to 20 racks a week and hosting customers might have multiple elements such as dedicated servers, firewalls, switches and private clouds within their racks or rooms which needed to be physically connected in close proximity to overcome cabling issues and to improve performance. This meant …

"We’ve been extremely successful in our partnership with Arista Networks. Arista is a great complement to our ISP, providing us with the ability to package the best technology and wireless network solution for our business customers. In addition, Arista’s reporting and interface ensures EPB can continue to provide the exceptional …

“We’ve been very happy with Arista, and our customers are thrilled with the results they are seeing. Our HostedWiFi customers are receiving above and beyond what they were initially asking for.”

“Arista’s EVPN/VXLAN design is an ‘all-in-one’ solution that effectively addresses the university’s networking requirements. Its implementation, particularly on Arista equipment, has proven to meet all specification points, including offering load balancing mechanisms on backbone links."

"The Arista switches, with their leading port density, low power and robust software allowed us to meet the high standards that our customers demand from our social networking service."

“Improving the reliability of our network is always a key issue for us. In addition to ensuring redundancy of the networking equipment, we also have a robust framework in place for operation and maintenance.”

"At present, we are only utilizing the L2 functions. In the future, we are eager to better utilize the Arista switches’ characteristic functions such as automatic software installation and ‘MLAG’, which achieves link aggregation between different chassis.”

“We turned to technologies that can be scaled easily and provide high reliability and survival time, taking into account the service scope and requirements. In addition to the needs of existing systems, services and users, we also considered the rapidly increasing data center demand and traffic volumes.”

“I still remember the case where we were affected by the software bug related to the BGP process and spent almost 8 months before the vendor could shine a light on a root cause. Arista are different – they do things very fast and professionally and they are ready to …

"We as a VMWare Enterprise partner, face the limitations of 1GbE daily in our storage and server virtualization projects. 10 GbE from Arista gives us countless benefits and puts us steps ahead of the competition."

"As leaders in Open SDN, and going back to its genesis at the Clean Slate Lab over five years ago, Big Switch is very happy to see leading vendors like Arista embracing OpenFlow and open standards."