October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
419 pages
10h 47m
English
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Chapter 1. Why Arista?
If you’re reading this book, you’ve got an interest in Arista products for any number of reasons. My goal is for you to understand why Arista is here, why they should be taken seriously, and why their switches are selling like crazy. So let’s get started by explaining how it all began.
A Brief History of Arista
Arista Networks is a successful networking equipment company that’s only been around since 2005. It takes something special to succeed in an industry dominated by well-entrenched companies, many of which have been on top for decades. Certainly a good product is needed, but that product and everything it takes to produce it comes from people. The people are what make Arista great. Please indulge me while I give you a quick tour of some of the key players at Arista, because having met many of them, I firmly believe that these people infect everyone around them with the same attitudes, excitement, and belief in what they’re doing.
Key Players
There are three people responsible for the creation of Arista Networks: Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, and Ken Duda. Allow me to explain who these people are, so that you might get an idea of what sort of company Arista is.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim co-founded a company called Sun Microsystems in 1982. You may have heard of them. In 1995, he left Sun to found a company called Granite Systems. This new company made its mark by developing (then) state-of-the art high-speed network switches. In 1995, Cisco acquired ...
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