Arista Networks Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Arista Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Anshul Sadana

Anshul Sadana, Senior Vice President of Customer Engineering, introduces Arista Networks and talks about their product lines and applications in modern networks.

In this presentation at Networking Field Day 10, Anshul Sadana delivers an in-depth overview of Arista Networks’ innovations and evolving approach to data center networking. He begins by describing the transition from traditional multi-tiered architectures to more streamlined one- and two-tier designs, such as Arista’s “Spline” design, which allows up to 2,000 non-blocking host connections. These scalable solutions are intended to meet the growing demands of modern enterprises and cloud data centers. Sadana also discusses their extensive support for Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies, including large deployments of up to 220,000 servers using Layer 3 ECMP, and highlights VXLAN overlay capabilities for extending Layer 2 networks across data centers.

A key emphasis of Sadana’s talk is on network reliability and operational flexibility. He explains how Arista’s extensible operating system (EOS) and architectural philosophy enable high redundancy and efficient upgrades, avoiding the traditional outages associated with legacy systems. Arista’s pioneering Smart System Upgrade (SSU) allows for controller and operating system upgrades without downtime, even on single top-of-rack switches. The network has evolved from a focus on uptime to a focus on minimizing downtime, with automation playing a central role in provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and decommissioning. Sadana outlines the benefits of such automation in large-scale environments and showcases Arista’s work on seamless integrations with tools like Splunk and custom telemetry platforms.

Finally, Sadana delves into Arista’s software programmability and the different strategies available for integrating with network infrastructure, culminating in Arista’s unique SysDB-based architecture. This allows for a high-performance, publish-subscribe model where multiple agents manage different features and states efficiently. He emphasizes Arista’s openness through robust APIs and SDKs, facilitating deep integrations and empowering customers to exert granular control over their networks. He also touches on Arista’s growth, now holding the number two market share in high-speed data center switching, and highlights their global footprint with expanded support centers and RMA depots. Overall, the session showcases Arista’s commitment to scalable, programmable, and customer-driven network innovation.


Intel Software Defined Infrastructure: Tips, Tricks and Tools for Network Design and Optimization

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Edwin Verplanke

Edwin Verplanke, Principal Engineer, discusses Intel’s Software Defined Infrastructure initiative and how it can help your existing network design and optimize future network additions.


Intel Open Network Platform Solutions for Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Deepak Rana

Deepak Rana, Director of Systems and Technology for Network Platforms Group, introduces the Intel Open Network Platform Solutions for Network Function Virtualization and discusses how this solution can help modern networks.


Intel Delivering Strategic Information

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Intel Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Lynn Comp

Lynn Comp, Director of Market Development Organization in Network Products Group, introduces Intel and their contributions to the networking community in both software and hardware.


Gigamon SourceFire Integration

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Cisco, Gigamon

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Personnel: Eric Costlan

Eric Costlan, Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco, discusses the Gigamon GigaSECURE integration with Cisco Sourcfire and the benefits of using these two products together.


Gigamon GigaSECURE Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Gigamon

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Personnel: Noam Syrkin

Noam Syrkin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Gigamon GigaSECURE solution and describes the operation and features of the user interface.


Gigamon Inline Bypass for Inline Deployment of Security

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Gigamon

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Personnel: Patrick Riley

Patrick Riley, Product Manager, discusses how to use Giagmon’s GigaSECURE solution as an inline bypass to deploy security in a network.


Gigamon GigaSECURE Platform

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Gigamon

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Personnel: Ananda Rajagopal

Ananda Rajagopal, VP of Product Line Management, introduces the new Gigamon GigaSECURE solution and gives an overview of how it works in a network environment.


Gigamon Introduction and Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Gigamon

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Personnel: Ananda Rajagopal

Ananda Rajagopal, VP of Product Line Management, introduces Gigamon and gives and overview of their productions and solutions.


Riverbed Hybrid WAN Path Selection

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Shashidar Merugu

Shashidar Merugu, Technical Director, talks about the challenges of hybrid WAN path selection, especially with video. The Riverbed Hybrid WAN Path Selection technology is demonstrated and discussed.


Riverbed Platform Future Discussion

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Kevin Glavin

Kevin Glavin, Technical Director, talks about Riverbed SaaS and SD-WAN as a platform and gives peek at some upcoming offerings from Riverbed, such as Project Tiger and SteelOS.


Riverbed Steelhead Universal SaaS

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Scot Wilson

Scot Wilson, Global Consulting Engineer, talks about the challenges with providing Software as a Service (SaaS) and how Riverbed’s technology can help.


Riverbed Cloud Application SaaS Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Kenny Quan

Kenny Quan, Senior Technical Marketing Professional, demonstrates Riverbed SaaS integration with Box.com and showcases how it can save time and bandwidth for users.


Architecting for Application Performance with Riverbed

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Josh Dobies

Josh Dobies, Senior Director of Product Marketing, talks about Riverbed’s entry in the software defined WAN (SD-WAN) market and how Riverbed’s technology is providing a unique solution for customers.


Riverbed SteelCentral Portal

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Dennis Corning

Dennis Corning, Senior Product Manager, introduces Riverbed SteelCentral Portal and gives an overview of the capabilities of the software.


Riverbed Introduction & Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Riverbed

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Personnel: Steve Brar

Steve Brar, Director of Product Marketing, introduces Riverbed and discusses the technology.


Big Switch Big Monitoring Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Big Switch

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Personnel: Mostafa Mansour, Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood, CTO and Mostafa Mansour, Sr. Tech Mrktg Engineer, at Big Switch Networks, discuss how Big Monitoring Fabric provides pervasive security and visibility – allowing tools to scale across networks.


Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric for VMware

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Big Switch

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Personnel: Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood, CTO and Syed Ghayur, Consulting System Engineer at Big Switch Networks, demonstrate integration of Big Cloud Fabric with VMware vSphere and vCenter – directly and as a data plane fabric.


Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric GUI Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Big Switch

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Personnel: Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood, CTO, Big Switch Networks, provides a demo of the Big Cloud Fabric GUI.  Visualizations, both of the physical and logical networks, track statistics across the entire fabric.


Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 10

Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 10

Company: Big Switch

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Personnel: Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood, CTO, Big Switch Networks, explains how Big Cloud Fabric implements dc switch functions with a scale-out leaf spine fabric, a central controller and is personalized for OpenStack and VMware.