14 June 2018
CEO Jayshree Ullal says Arista is “unshackling the complexity of today's legacy multi-tiered box approach to an elegant Spline-based campus design.”
Arista Networks claims it has come up with new network architecture to address the transitional changes as the enterprise moves to an IoT-ready campus.
The company reckons its cognitive cloud networking approach, which is driven in partnership with Aruba and VMware, helps reduce customer operational expenses through simplified architectures, data-driven analytics and segment-based security.
Arista says its Universal Cloud Network (UCN) delivers common cloud principles for simplified networking topologies and architectures across use-cases.
As the first step in addressing the campus network architecture, it is introducing the 7300X3 and 7050X3 Spline. Arista says these10/25/40/50/100G Ethernet platforms extend the open UCN architecture from the data centre to the campus. A
s Spline switches, it says the X3 Series collapse multiple tiers of legacy hierarchical campus designs into a single tier, resulting in simplified network designs with fewer touchpoints while still achieving high availability levels.
Arista has also developed the Cognitive Management Plane (CMP), and open framework designed to address this gap for large data sets.
The CMP combines a state repository, a stream computation engine, and various application components built into a horizontally scalable cluster.
Each cluster manages a subset of network devices from different vendors and interacts with other clusters through vendor-neutral APIs and standardised models.
The firm says CMP-based turbines can detect network issues that legacy systems have routinely missed and ultimately help to reduce the mean time to identify and remediate these issues.
The platform then leverages Arista’s CloudVision to federate the state across network types (data centre, cloud, campus, etc.) and can share this data with peers in the CMP framework.
This is said to result in a new level of visibility which is then coupled with automated provisioning, giving customers the ability to detect and take action for ongoing operational tasks.
