Key Solutions
Enterprise WAN
Arista’s WAN Routing System, designed for enterprise WAN use cases, combines cloud-grade Unified Cloud Networking offerings, enterprise-class WAN routing platforms, carrier/cloud-neutral Internet transit options, and the CloudVision® Pathfinder Service to simplify and improve customer wide area networks.
Based on Arista’s EOS® software and CloudVision’s cloud-based management and orchestration services, the Arista WAN Routing System delivers advanced traffic engineering, path computation, self-healing, encrypted fabric management, and predictive diagnostics and analytics from the cloud to the edge that simplify the WAN and lower WAN operating costs. Enterprise-class routing features are available in a broad series of physical, virtual, and cloud platforms – all using identical EOS software.
Arista AWE-7200R Series Platforms offer the performance and scale to meet modern enterprise WAN edge and aggregation requirements.
CloudEOS™ virtual and cloud platform is fully supported by the Arista WAN Routing System as a transit hub and connectivity architecture.
Arista WAN routing platforms operate in both a classic and stand-alone routing model, or in a more ‘SD-WAN’ model with CloudVision® Pathfinder Service, providing support for a wide range of WAN use cases.
Delivers a more managed operator experience delivering SD-WAN features and technologies via open standards, with automated zero-touch deployment, provisioning and policy control.
Full configuration transparency for better operator awareness with a turnkey automated infrastructure, while dynamically rendering configurations through a reduced complexity standards-based protocol stack.
Application Identification: identify and classify applications into virtual topologies which are then automatically traffic engineered.
Adaptive Overlays: Adaptive Virtual Topology with traffic engineering, application awareness, IPsec AutoVPN cryptography, and self-healing.
Dynamic Path Selection and Path Computation: self-healing and traffic engineering for edge, aggregation, and core.
CloudEOS with WAN transit gateway services is widely deployed in all major public cloud platforms and marketplaces, via customer on-premises appliances, and in Equinix Edge, Metal, and Fabric services.
Arista’s WAN Routing System features are available in a series of physical, virtual, and cloud platforms – all using identical EOS software.
Network Security
A new age of edge-less, multi-cloud, multi-device collaboration for hybrid work has given rise to a new network that transcends perimeters. As hybrid work models continue to gain precedence through the new network, it has become vital for organizations to address the cascading attack surface. Continuously evolving cyber threats can no longer be mitigated by reactionary bolt-on security measures or perimeter firewalls. Instead, organizations need security to permeate the underlying network infrastructure.
Security measures need to pivot from reactive to a more proactive approach of continuous contextual network monitoring that ensures threats are detected and mitigated before an expansive data breach.
A zero trust networking approach to security is paramount for organizations looking to build a robust cybersecurity ecosystem today. Based on the premise of explicit trust, zero trust security ensures complete visibility and control over any enterprise network activity, regardless of which device, application, or user is accessing that resource.
This paradigm shift has prompted best-in-class enterprises to bake security into the core of their network infrastructure. Implementing security at this layer reduces operational costs and complexity and represents the most effective way to track and successfully manage threats coming in from the wider attack surface.
Arista’s suite of security solutions helps customers accelerate their journey towards zero trust maturity. Based on the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, Arista supports all the essential functions CISA recommends for the network: network segmentation, network traffic management, traffic encryption, and network resilience along with controls for visibility and analytics, automation and orchestration, as well as governance.
As evidenced by the Universal Cloud Network (UCN) architecture, Arista helps customers build networks that are secure by design. Arista’s zero trust portfolio eliminates the need for several network monitoring and security tools by delivering a unified and integrated architecture that provides real-time visibility of the threat posture across the network and the ability to take action. Arista is uniquely positioned to deliver these capabilities across various networks: from the campus to the data center and the cloud.
Arista network infrastructure natively supports encryption capabilities such as MACsec and TunnelSec. These capabilities, implemented on the switches, enable organizations to encrypt data to and from legacy applications and workloads without changing those systems but instead relying on the network to protect data from unauthorized access, interception, and tampering.
Arista AVA and NetDL also enable a cloud networking ecosystem of Arista strategic partners and ISVs to deliver market and customer-specific intelligent insights and solutions for automation via continuous integration pipelines, media and entertainment, cyber-security, application and network performance monitoring, and other categories.
Network Observability
Arista offers a next-generation approach to TAP Aggregation — network observability — that enables, pervasive network visibility, zero-trust security monitoring and contextual analytics for high density, non-blocking 10/25/40/50/100GbE networks at any scale– all powered by Arista Data ANalyZer (DANZ) monitoring software solutions to deliver cloud-scale visibility with Ethernet economics
Telemetry and Analytics
Visibility is a critical component to a more efficient cloud-like network. Being able to capture what a network is ‘thinking’ or ‘doing’ is the basis for true network automation and analytics. Legacy networking has long suffered from limitations in network visibility largely due to inefficient polling mechanisms that only provide a limited subset of data. As a result, the operators of legacy networks have been essentially blinded when it comes to true network insight.
Arista EOS and CloudVision bring a modern approach to network telemetry and a replacement for legacy polling mechanisms. CloudVision Analytics engines and CloudVision Telemetry Apps take full advantage of the state streaming infrastructure of EOS and NetDB to give Arista customers an unprecedented level of visibility into their network operations.
VMtracer, MapReduce tracer and Container tracer are a part of Arista’s Telemetry solution that bring deeper workload-level visibility by integrating with distributed applications like big data, cloud, container and virtualized environments
Arista’s EOS offers an advanced set of tools for proactive monitoring and instrumentation that provides insight into network hotspot detection using LANZ, programmable event triggers with Advanced Event Monitoring and the ability to capture, aggregate and replicate high volumes of traffic for processing using the integrated DANZ feature set.
Arista’s Telemetry solutions are built on the extensible foundation of EOS and CloudVision, which offer a rich set of JSON and RESTful APIs for easy integration with third party systems. Solutions with VMware, Docker, Microsoft System Center, Openstack and SAP give customers the flexibility to choose from a best-of-breed ecosystem that integrates the state of the cloud network with Arista real-time telemetry.
AI Networking
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a revolutionary technology that is transforming many industries and aspects of our daily lives from medicine to financial services and entertainment. The rapid evolution of real-time gaming, virtual reality, generative AI and metaverse applications are changing the ways in which network, compute, memory, storage and interconnect I/O interact. As AI continues to advance at unprecedented pace, networks need to adapt to the colossal growth in traffic transiting hundreds and thousands of processors with trillions of transactions and terabits of throughput.
- Arista Etherlink™: Arista’s Etherlink portfolio consists of ultra high performance standards-based Ethernet systems with smart features for AI networking.These include a portfolio of specialist load balancing and congestion control features, including Arista’s RDMA Aware QoS and load balancing capabilities which ensure reliable packet delivery to all NICs supporting RoCE. Arista Etherlink also introduces AI Analyzer with workload and NIC integration to improve cluster deployment time, operational stability and provide deep visibility supported by AVA machine learning. Etherlink features are supported across a broad range of 800G systems and line cards based on Arista EOSⓇ and are forwards compatible with UEC.
- Network Platforms: Arista offers a range of fixed, modular and distributed platforms which can be deployed individually, for smaller clusters, or combined to build large topologies suitable for over one hundred thousand accelerators. The 7060X6 series, 7060X series and 7388X5 series offer a rich breadth of connectivity options in a range of 800G and 400G systems with up to 51.2Tbps of capacity in a choice of 1, 2 and 4U form factors.
As the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) completes their extensions to improve Ethernet for AI workloads, Arista is building forwards compatible products to support UEC standards. The Arista Etherlink™ portfolio leverages standards based Ethernet systems with a package of smart features for AI networks. These include dynamic load balancing, congestion control and reliable packet delivery to all NICs supporting ROCE. Arista Etherlink will be supported across a broad range of 400G and 800G systems based on EOS. As the UEC specification is finalized, Arista AI platforms will be upgradeable to be compliant.