Arista Networks designs and builds modern, high performance networks that were inspired by lessons that our founders learned at Sun in the 80s, Cisco in the 90s, and Google in the early 2000s. Arista has capitalized on the confluence of two market changes that occurred between 2000 and 2008: the widespread market adoption of Linux software, and the rise of merchant silicon.
First, the software is a Linux-based network OS called Extensible Operating System, or EOS, and it's uniquely designed for high availability and open integration with other software vendors (F5, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, VMWare, Splunk). Customers benefit because they can now adapt the network operating system t...