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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

Arista is famous for there switches, as most of the industry uses the arista switches. Now Arista is also moving towards the cloud and also introducing lots of products like 7800 series switches, 7500 series, and all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

Dislike is only one thing that I have noticed: most of the industry is moving towards the cloud, so switches use is down, but yes, it will increase for private and public cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly it resolves the switch issues in Data Centre because, without the switch, networking cant is possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arista Networks Overview

What is Arista Networks?

Arista Networks has championed the guiding cloud principles of cloud leaders with network designs serving private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, enterprise and high-performance network use cases. These include the use of open APIs, cloud automation features, and self service provisioning and deployment – coupled with an open approach to network integration, customer programmability, and simplified standards-based deployment architectures.

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Product Description

Arista Networks has championed the guiding cloud principles of cloud leaders with network designs serving private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, enterprise and high-performance network use cases. These include the use of open APIs, cloud automation features, and self service provisioning and deployment – coupled with an open approach to network integration, customer programmability, and simplified standards-based deployment architectures.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2004
HQ Location
Santa Clara, US
Twitter
@arista_channels
2,499 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
4,698 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NYSE:ANET
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$2,317
Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. For more information, visit https://www.arista.com.

Recent Arista Networks Reviews

Jeff G.
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Jeff G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Incredibly fast & inovative"
Speed, security, innovation. Great alternative to Infinaband.
Sanchit M.
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Sanchit M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Arista- for clients to cloud networking"
Arista gives uper hand as compared to other vendors out in the market in terms of programmabilty and scripting via advance event management and eve...
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5.0 out of 5
"Amazing network stability and performance"
Flexibility and feature set was amazing!
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Jeff G.
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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

Speed, security, innovation. Great alternative to Infinaband. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

Cost, some use cases are not ideal. Customer perception is still lower than Infiniband. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

High speed East West network fabric. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

We are using Arista Network Switches and Wireless Solution. The best thing about these I products is they have zero-touch deployment, easy to manage and very effective capabilities. Also Arista support is comparitively good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

One of the negative thing that I found is its costing. The solution is quite expensive. Also they need to work on few enhancements like cloud based soultion and API based services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our prime goal was to have stable network, easy management and security requirements. So with Arista solution, we are able to achieve our requirements and overall, I am pretty happy with the product functionalities as well as its capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanchit M.
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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

Arista gives uper hand as compared to other vendors out in the market in terms of programmabilty and scripting via advance event management and event monitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

Complexity in handling device via there CLI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mutilayer switching, spline network, high performance network box which support upto 100 Gbe. Option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krishna Tej M.
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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

The good thing i experienced while working on arista platform is the ease of use and clear display of different components of its GUI / Cloud portal displaying all of its services in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

The product provides services along with major market competitors although Arista is new in the market i feel there is much room for improvement in terms of its global reach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Arista platform seems pretty simple and robust, compared to its market competitors that rely on heavy operating systems followed by complex and routine maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

Quality is king. I think the software stability and quality is the main thing that highlights the Arista software. The hardware systems are being commoditized so the software must remain stable to ensure success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

The cloud management of the Arista systems is behind. In general, the management at these network equipment systems are generally lacking and Arista is no different. The emergence of the campus portfolio is promising where this matters more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deep tie in between enterprise network between the datacenter. The cloud management is rather weak but the support and software quality is absolutely top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

eaee to use, automation and combination of artificial intelligence makes arista open ended programmable switching possible with less human interaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

more commercial tool used for big data centers and campus but not available for small to medium sized campus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

less overhead of doing manual configuration and automation makes it best choice for cloud based technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satyaprakash S.
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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

The Arista WM have intrusion prevention technology, which is work very well if unauthorized devices try to connect in our iternal network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

The old GUI much better and simple as compare new CVP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Arista network block unauthorized access in your Wireless network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

It provides Data Centre infrastructure solution by connecting multiple branch sites through Arista network routers and switches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

TAC support is slow and time to resolve for any issues takes longer than expected time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connecting multiple retail, manufacturing, etc offices by using Arista network devices and provides enterprise networking data communication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

I like the way the DC solution is being implemented in the Arista Networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

Implementation Complexity, command line interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

In growing technology industry, managing the DC networks is highly challenging one, Arista is providing greater solution to make that easier for the Network Adminsitrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Arista Networks?

Flexibility and feature set was amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arista Networks?

Cost of the product could have been more competitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Replaced Cisco Nexus and provides great next level stability and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.