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Arista Networks

Cloud Principles for the Enterprise

John Kissane – AVP East

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Arista Rise to Strategic Status in Cloud and Ent.

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2015

CloudVision Arrives, E&Y Award

2008

Arista Launched officially, EOS crown Jewel

2009

Financial (HFT) vertical initial growth driver

2014

IPO June 6th, 2014 2M Ports shipped

2013

7500E 2nd gen Spine wins Interop best of show for 2nd time

2012

Cloud takes off! SDN Fever and first Million ports of cloud networking

2011

Won Best of VMworld for Hardware Virtualization (Co-Author VXLAN)

2010

7500 Spine bornInterop best of show award

20172016

7500R for routing Spine first $1B year 10M ports

MQ Gartner Leader 3rd consecutive 15+M ports

2018

5000+ customers Forrester LeaderCognitive Campus Entry

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Operating System Comparison

• Complicated and Unreliable

• Susceptible to Failure and Difficult Recovery

• Custom ASICs

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• Simple underlying architecture

• Publish/ Subscribe Model for IPC

• Merchant Silicon

VS

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Cloud Networking is Everywhere:

Three Key Markets – One Architecture – One EOS

Turnkey

Driven

Arista

Cloud Converged

Enterprise

Best of Breed

Driven

Arista

Cloud Class

Custom

Automation/

Telemetry

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Key Verticals

Scale and Control

Driven

Arista

Cloud Scale

Custom

Automation/

Telemetry

Cloud Titans

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Places In Cloud(PIC) Vision: Cognitive Cloud Networking

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EOS, CloudVision for Cloud Networking

Any Cloud

Public clouds

Networking for Cloud

Native Apps

On-premises data center

Networking for Traditional Virtualized Apps

Consistent and Open EOS API for Cognitive PINS to PICS

Cognitive Campus

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Why Do Customers Choose Arista?

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Alternative Savings

Single Image Multiple ImagesVS 3x-6x

Automated Deployment Manual Provisioning 60xVS

Proactive Visibility Reactive monitoring 100xVS

Ecosystem Integration Proprietary Stack Silo IT to SDCNVS

Arista

EOS Code Stability Monolithic Code Instability 10x High AvailabilityVS

Open SDN Controller (BYOC) Proprietary controller 10xVS

~$300/port cost savings

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