Press Releases

December 14, 2010

Arista Networks, a US based company and the leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches for Cloud Networking, announced the opening of an engineering centre in India. The Bangalore R&D centre will focus on expanding Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) which is purpose-built for large data centre and cloud scale deployments.

October 12, 2010

Theale, Berkshire, UK, 12th October 2010 - Fujin Systems, a system integrator specialising in advanced Ethernet and next generation security and availability services, has successfully completed the first UK sale of an Arista Networks 7500 switch to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

September 20, 2010

High Performance Computing Financial Markets, New York City, NY – September 20, 2010 - Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, and Arista Networks , a leading provider of low latency 10GigE Ethernet switches for enterprise data centers, today announced that IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging maintained a latency of 4μs at rates up to 100K messages/second and 6μs at one million messages/second using Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN NICs with RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) and Arista 7100 10GigE switch.

August 24, 2010

Menlo Park, CA – August 24, 2010 - Arista Networks today introduced an extension of its EOS (Extensible Operating System) software capabilities with Arista VM Tracer™. This new capability uniquely bridges the gap between the physical and virtual networks within a VMware environment through a set of software features that run on the Arista 7000 Family of Cloud Networking Switches. Arista VM Tracer™. provides networking operators new levels of visibility into the virtualization layer while enabling VMware administrators to have seamless control through the VMware vSphere™ interface.

April 25, 2010

Las Vegas, NV – April 25, 2010 - Joyent, a pioneer in cloud computing, and Arista Networks, the pioneer of 10 GbE cloud networking, announced today at Interop that the two companies have joined forces to enable the automated management of network infrastructure using Joyent cloud computing infrastructure. The collaboration will provide users of Joyent infrastructure with unprecedented flexibility in network provisioning and improved manageability, scalability and security.

April 19, 2010

Arista Networks today introduced the Arista 7500, a revolutionary switching platform for maximizing data center performance, efficiency, and overall network reliability. The Arista 7500 is the highest performance and most power efficient 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switching platform available. It was specifically designed to address the most demanding customer requirements for cloud computing, virtualization, and mission-critical data centers.

February 9, 2010

iStreamPlanet announced today that it has partnered with Switch Communications, Intel, Arista Networks and Juniper Networks to create a fully redundant, cloud based content origination service that is hosting all video and high resolution photo content on NBCOlympics.com through the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Arista Networks provided the Ethernet network to interconnect the streaming servers which require high-performance 1/10Gb switching with very large packet buffering. This is perfectly suited to supporting high-bandwidth video streaming and storage interconnection while maintaining the highest levels of system availability with both device and system level resiliency designed into the iStreamPlanet infrastructure. As reliability and resilience is important Arista EOS with In-Service Software Upgrades and Stateful Fault Repair proved invaluable in maintaining service level agreements and overall uptime.