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Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 16



Networking Field Day 16

Andy Bechtolsheim presents for Arista Networks at Networking Field Day 16


This Presentation date is September 13, 2017 at 15:30 - 17:30.

Presenters: Andy Bechtolsheim, Anshul Sadana, Ken Duda, Russell Kelly, Ryan Madsen



Arista Introduction and Overview with Anshul Sadana


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Anshul Sadana, SVP and Chief Customer Officer at Arista, updates the delegates on the state of Arista. The company has evolved from Leaf-Spine designs for data center networking and now has moved into spine interconnects between data centers. He also discusses the companies move into supporting IP storage, spine routing, cloud peering, and security monitoring.

Personnel: Anshul Sadana

Andy Bechtolsheim on the 400 Gigabit Landscape


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Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman at Arista, reviews how Arista is preparing for the 400 Gigabit future. While 100G Ethernet is gaining ascendency now, by 2021 he sees the 400G port numbers reaching parity with 100G Ethernet. The optics for this will be powered by 100G per lane, as defined by the 100G Lambda MSA consortium. He further reviews how this standard will allow for more seamless transition to 400G than the standards proposed by the IEEE.

Personnel: Andy Bechtolsheim

Arista EOS Programmability with Ken Duda


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Ken Duda, Founder, CTO and SVP Software and Engineering at Arista, has worked in networking for decades, but is a programmer at heart. He reviews the how the EOS architecture is different from other switches, starting from it’s simplified single binary image. This allows for standardization across an entire environment. This is enhanced by their state oriented approach, which allows for off-box programmability. All of this is backed by a commitment to “true” Linux with an off the shelf Linux distribution.

Personnel: Ken Duda

Arista Networks Automation and Telemetry with Ryan Madsen


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Ryan Madsen, Manager Software Engineering, begins this session why explaining why Arista entered into the crowded monitoring market. This was a response based on the customer need to obtain comprehensive state from boxes in real time. This leads into an overview of their answer, CloudVision Telemetry. He then reviews how the system operates in a live demo.

Personnel: Ryan Madsen

Arista Networks Routing Architecture Transformations with Russell Kelly


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Russell Kelly, Technical Marketing Engineer, gives an overview of how Arista is positioned to attack the routing space, with a combination of silicon and programability. This is informed by a transformation in routing architecture based around cloud principles that have driven transformation in most other enterprise infrastructure already. He then gives an overview of the scalability of their approach with FlexRoute.

Personnel: Russell Kelly


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