Arista Networks

Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics

When one GPU translates into three to five of the fastest switch ports money can buy, can you blame them?

Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2025 | 1

Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'

Networks06 Aug 2025 |

China's IPv6 adoption takes a decent leap forward, especially on fixed networks

Asia In Brief PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more!

Networks04 Aug 2025 | 13

Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom

It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks

Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4

Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks

World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins

Networks08 May 2025 | 2

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid

On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC

Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7

Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading

Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options

Networks26 Mar 2024 | 12

Burn, backlog, burn: Cisco inferno clears away supply chain hassles

As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business

Networks16 Feb 2023 | 5

Arista offers up 800G switches to the data-hungry cloud gods

That's a lot of personal data and cat videos per second

Networks14 Dec 2022 |

Former Cisco boss launches upstart to rattle old employer's cage

John Chambers' Nile wants to remove humans from network management

Networks15 Sep 2022 | 17

Datacenter switching surged in Q1, but it won't last forever

Supply and demand are in for a switcheroo, analyst tells El Reg

Networks06 Jun 2022 |

Arista's latest switches pack AMD Xilinx FPGAs to fuel high-frequency traders

Do you feel the need? The need for speed?

Systems02 Jun 2022 | 3

Arista Networks makes $4.3b bet on components amid supplies drought

Component suppliers are cancelling orders on the same week they are due, says CEO

Networks03 May 2022 |

Wi-Fi 6E unaffected by chip shortages, claims Wi-Fi Alliance

Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home

Networks14 Mar 2022 | 6

Spirent ships test kit for 400 and 800Gbps Ethernet

Expansion of 5G plus 4k and 8k video help drive ever-higher networking tech speeds

Networks09 Mar 2022 | 5

Refresh? No, F5 says supply of networking chips is still awful, getting worse...

More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEO

Networks26 Jan 2022 | 5

Spine-leaf makes grief, says Arista as it reveals new campus kit

What you need is a switched 'Spline', says Cisco-irritator

Networks10 May 2018 | 4

Cisco tears off gloves, throws copyright and patent punches at Arista

Smaller rival faces court battle over intellectual property infringement claims

Networks06 Dec 2014 | 12

Bechtolsheim's baby Arista Networks soars in stock market debut

Networking firm mints big bucks as Cisco execs stare in blank terror at stock screens

Channel06 Jun 2014 | 8

Bechtolsheim's baby Arista Networks heads toward IPO

Profitable bit-fiddler files S-1 for market debut

On-Prem31 Mar 2014 | 3

Arista wants Cisco Catalyst 6500 scalp. Price on head? $35bn

Storm clouds gather over key Cisco switch franchise

Networks19 Nov 2013 | 6

Arista wires software-defined networking into its kit

Joins rest of industry in collective hypegasm

Networks30 Mar 2013 | 3

OpenStack Foundation launches with $10m in funding

NASA, Rackspace experts jump ship to Nebula

Virtualization19 Sep 2012 | 2

Arista punts 10/40 GbE juice-sipper

Swift switch joins jitterless, low-latency 10GbE sibling

Networks28 Mar 2011 |

Arista goes modular with 10 Gig E switches

10 Tb/sec for 384 ports

Networks19 Apr 2010 | 3

Bechtolsheim: The server is not the network

HPC on Wall Street Whatever Cisco says

Channel14 Sep 2009 | 5

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