ARISTA NETWORKS INC.
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Arista, launched in 2008, was founded by industry luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda, and David Cheriton. Its goal was to deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data centers and high-performance computing environments. |
| 2018 | The company acquired Mojo Networks, a 2002-founded company in Mountain View, California, that offers cloud-managed WiFi for the campus networking market. |
| 2020 | Arista Networks acquired Awake Security, a network detection and response company. This acquisition helped Arista expand its security capabilities by integrating Awake's advanced AI and ML-based threat detection into its network visibility and security solutions. |
| 2022 | The company added security, cloud, and mobile connectivity to its operating system and doubled its portfolio of routing products, giving enterprises new network configuration options. |
| 2023 | The company partnered with cloud security pioneer Zscaler Inc. to enhance business network security by integrating its cloud networking solutions with Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform. |
| 2024 | Arista collaborated with Nvidia to use its BlueField-3 SuperNIC, which targets large-scale AI workloads and provides 400Gbps bandwidth using remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to maximize throughput between GPU servers. |