188 Arista Networks Testimonials

"Ethernet interfaces from 10G to 100G provide sufficient bandwidth to transport uncompressed content from SD to UHD but require additional broadcast wrappers to do so. This includes the SMPTE standards, which have recently enabled uncompressed media transport over IP and, thereby, removed the last blocker to an all‐IP platform. While still in their infancy, these new protocols, along with standards like AMWA NMOS, promise to reduce complexity in managing content distribution.”

“Our need for network devices that could process 400 Gbps of traffic at a wire rate limited our options to the major vendors. Arista Networks offered not only a high level of cost performance but also gave us the ability to use a transceiver supporting fiber optic transmission multiplexing. This support was important to us because it satisfied our need for a long-distance, high-speed connection.”

"Arista’s 7500 switching platform removes a number of barriers to wide-scale 10 Gigabit Ethernet adoption in performance sensitive markets like financial services, cloud computing and high performance computing. In capital markets in particular, this product strikes to the heart of all the major IT initiatives underway – lower capital expenditures, massive scale, reduced power consumption and above all, the flexibility to stay agile as the business climate changes."

"As customers continue to leverage our VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform as a core component of the software-defined data center, Arista is an important VMware NSX partner. The addition of support for the OVSDB on the Arista 7000 series with hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP) is another example of our joint innovation. Our joint customers can leverage VMware NSX and Arista to realize the benefits of unified management between physical and virtual workloads across hypervisors and physical access switches."

"We are very excited with the innovations demonstrated in Arista's latest launch: record low latency and jitter, unsurpassed operational simplicity and visibility through ZTP and LANZ, proven reliability of Arista's modular EOS platform, and reduced power footprint combine to make the Arista 7124SX a must for anyone concerned with the solution footprint and scale. Coupled with Tervela's overlay solution for intelligent data routing, they provide customers with a distinct advantage in solving critical business problems."

"Our technical guys were particularly impressed by the ease of management of Arista and during operation it has allowed us to make major changes that would typically take weeks in just a few days.”

“We had three main goals, Firstly we needed increased bandwidth to support the sheer volume of content we have moving across our network, next we needed to ensure reliability with the ability to grow as needed. And finally, we were keen to build automation into the network management side to allow us to better adapt to future requirements.”

“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 spent a lot of time physically moving servers around our data centres, resulting in delays in processing customer orders while proving time consuming for our technical teams.”

“We had previously built and maintained very specialist servers linked to atomic clocks that serve NTP requests for time data. This method worked well, but the new NTS standard uses more computational resources for encryption processes. This reduced the number of requests we could serve from our existing clusters and made it difficult to scale up.”

"As a leader in performance and service delivery management for cloud computing data centers, and the first performance management company to join the SDN movement earlier this year, NetScout Systems is working with Arista Networks to address the challenges of virtualized cloud computing. Arista's new SDN features complement NetScout's packet flow technology and promise to deliver enhanced visibility and control needed to make cloud-scale computing successful."

"We are effectively running the Arista switches as the core networking switches and so far we have had no issues around the latency or reliability. The cost per port is around a quarter of what anybody else could match, even with educational discounts, and we are using only 26 of the 48 ports giving us plenty of scope to grow."

"Cloudera Enterprise, the core of an enterprise data hub, gives our customers access to all their data whether structured or unstructured. It's the foundation for the next generation of data management infrastructure, and provides insights that haven't been possible until now. Arista's Map Reduce Tracer provides similar insights to network administrators in understanding network performance and big data workloads across a variety of large data center and computing environments offering us high availability, which is critical for our success."

"As enterprises continue to build data centers on cloud computing technologies, it is critical that they can easily integrate with Hadoop-based systems for business analytics. We're encouraged by the latest innovations from Arista, which promises to deliver advanced network provisioning capabilities for seamless integration with Software Driven Cloud Networks that complement and extend the capabilities of Cloudera's next generation data management tools for the enterprise."

“We recognised that our legacy network was not well suited to our future plans, especially with our growing partner community and expanded portfolio of services including data backup, replication and hosting services.”

“We have been part of the FRench Network Operators Group (FRnOG) for a number of years and seen presentations and case studies on the success of Arista for use cases similar to ours, and this was the spark that prompted us to bring Arista in as part of a proof of concept project.”