“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.”
“Our needs have changed as ITN has grown and today it is critical for us to be able to adapt to new demands and workflows with flexibility at scale. The move to an IP network is a significant change for us – and it will be with us for a long time – so our scoping project was extremely thorough.”
"The high density 40GbE and 100GbE interfaces, deep packet buffers, SDN features and the robustness of EOS makes the Arista 7500 an ideal spine platform for our network. Arista continues to innovate on programmability with it's Linux based EOS and was a key factor in deciding on the 7500E for our Big Data needs."
"Being the first cloud in Costa Rica was a great challenge for us, on one hand we had the customers requirements (high end switching,wire speed and support) and on the other the commitment to a green facility and thanks to the Arista solutions we accomplish both."
“The Arista switches will allow us to work smarter not harder, and staff and students will certainly notice and benefit from the performance hike delivered by the upgrade.”
“Sweet.tv faced the difficult task of quickly and efficiently upgrading its network to support and improve the quality of service provided to subscribers, whose numbers are rapidly growing.”
"Proactive management of network latency is essential to ensure maximum performance - Arista's new 7124SX switch does just that by delivering extremely low latency, sFlow traffic monitoring, and breakthrough visibility into queue depths with LANZ."
"Arista and F5 share a common vision for our customers’ next generation data centers while meeting their critical data center requirements today. Arista's EOS™ and the new 7000 series can be combined with F5’s BIG-IP solution to deliver a software defined cloud architecture that will benefit customers through streamlined and consistent application delivery services, such as load balancing, firewalls, application layer security, and access control."
“We already have a lot of experience with Arista as it has been part of our internet exchange offering for around five years, so we were very familiar with Arista’s capabilities including reliability, quality and execution.”
“Utilizing one OS on all our networking platforms makes patching, supporting, and training easy. This solidly reinforces the strategy we desire for our global networking vision.”
“We are building 11 new data centers worldwide in 12 months, We utilize the power of standardization to build a stronger network which enables our production and supply chain to bring the products to our customer faster and trouble-free.”
"We selected Arista for its known performance and robustness. Being a proven technology in combination with the fact that it runs Linux provides us the flexibility we need in a switch platform supporting a fast changing technology such as OpenStack.”
"The Arista 7500 switch should accelerate the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet as the interconnect of choice for high performance servers and storage in cloud computing, virtualization and mission-critical data center applications. In particular, I expect to see even faster growth of high density Ethernet clusters as the replacement technology for InfiniBand."
“Like many other service providers, we are exploring cloud opportunities as this is where the market is heading. Our first step on this path was a major project to transform our existing infrastructure from traditional SDI cables and routers into a system based on TCP/IP networks using mostly commodity IT products.”
Although carrying out a data centre migration during the pandemic was, at times, challenging, the end result could not have come at a better time with the university adopting more interactive and digital learning methods, The data centre is at the heart of so many things we need to do to deliver the next generation of educational tools and the success of this project is part of the commitment we hold to our students to make sure that IT is there to help them succeed.”