Arista Networks Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/arista-networks/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Arista Networks Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/arista-networks/ 32 32 86113652 Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:37:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145327 In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …

Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/feed/ 0 145327 The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:17:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144976 For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …

The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/feed/ 1 144976 Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:17:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144549 Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/feed/ 3 144549 Arista Networks Conservatively Awaits Its AI Boom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/13/arista-networks-conservatively-awaits-its-ai-boom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/13/arista-networks-conservatively-awaits-its-ai-boom/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:21:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143653 As a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, which has the express purpose of making Ethernet as good for AI and HPC clusters as InfiniBand but with the scalability and familiarity of Ethernet, Arista Networks wants to benefit mightily from the AI wave that is coming to enterprise datacenters the world over. …

Arista Networks Conservatively Awaits Its AI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/13/arista-networks-conservatively-awaits-its-ai-boom/feed/ 0 143653 Where Cloud And AI Titans Rule The Network https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/01/where-cloud-and-ai-titans-rule-the-network/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/01/where-cloud-and-ai-titans-rule-the-network/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:46:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143185 As 2023 has progressed, the revenue growth projections at Arista Networks have inched up as its supply chain issues are getting resolved. …

Where Cloud And AI Titans Rule The Network was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/01/where-cloud-and-ai-titans-rule-the-network/feed/ 3 143185 Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/17/micas-takes-on-arista-and-the-whiteboxes-in-datacenter-switching/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/17/micas-takes-on-arista-and-the-whiteboxes-in-datacenter-switching/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:29:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143126 The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …

Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/17/micas-takes-on-arista-and-the-whiteboxes-in-datacenter-switching/feed/ 2 143126 Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/20/ethernet-consortium-shoots-for-1-million-node-clusters-that-beat-infiniband/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/20/ethernet-consortium-shoots-for-1-million-node-clusters-that-beat-infiniband/#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:50:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142670 Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …

Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/20/ethernet-consortium-shoots-for-1-million-node-clusters-that-beat-infiniband/feed/ 14 142670 After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023 https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/02/after-the-2022-bump-arista-is-back-to-the-grind-in-2023/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/02/after-the-2022-bump-arista-is-back-to-the-grind-in-2023/#respond Tue, 02 May 2023 16:22:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142318 For Arista Networks, the poster-child of hyperscaler and cloud build networking that, more than any other vendor, has championed merchant silicon and Linux as the basis of a modular network operating system, 2022 was a bumper crop year. …

After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/02/after-the-2022-bump-arista-is-back-to-the-grind-in-2023/feed/ 0 142318 Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022 https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/15/meta-platforms-spends-over-1-billion-on-arista-networking-in-2022/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/15/meta-platforms-spends-over-1-billion-on-arista-networking-in-2022/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:28:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141891 The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …

Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/15/meta-platforms-spends-over-1-billion-on-arista-networking-in-2022/feed/ 8 141891 Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/01/06/paving-the-way-for-800-gb-sec-ethernet-in-the-enterprise/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/01/06/paving-the-way-for-800-gb-sec-ethernet-in-the-enterprise/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:50:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141708 There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …

Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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