Arista Networks – a new networking company
Posted by lopeza on October 24, 2008
Started up by Sun’s billionaire cofounder, Andreas Bechtolsheim and a former Cisco star, Jarshree Ullal. They are creating fast network switches running at 10 gigabits running Intel and AMD chips on linux OS. Many of these types of switches are already used by big telecommunications carriers, but haven’t really been popular against the widely used one-gigabit switches.
Thier approach is to get products to market quickly and with the potential of letting developers create add-on programs to handle specialized functions.
Cost looks like its around $400 – $500 per port and the company claims to have about 50 customers so far. Cisco’s similar product sells at about $900 per port. I haven’t read any reviews about their support service but if the CEO carries over the support style at Cisco then I am sure it will be great.
