Arista Expands CloudVision to the Campus
October 16 2018 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Cognitive campus edge unifies wired and
wireless
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Booth 626-- Arista Networks
(NYSE:ANET) announced today the next phase in its campus
architecture, changing the way enterprises rebuild campus networks
in the future. Arista’s Cognitive Campus unifies wired and wireless
campus networking, applying modern software-driven cloud
principles. Arista Cognitive WiFi™ eliminates legacy WiFi
controller bottlenecks to reduce operational costs with higher
reliability through a cloud-based, cognitive model.
“Legacy WiFi solutions focus on basic connectivity and provide
little insight into performance. Arista’s Cognitive WiFi with
Arista EOS® and CloudVision® focuses on the customer’s experience,
ensuring application performance and reachability,” said John
McCool, Chief Platform Officer, Senior Vice President of
Engineering and Operations for Arista.
Introducing CloudVision for Campus
Traditional campus networks suffer from complex bottlenecks
brought on by the myriad of platforms, operating systems,
proprietary features and network management tools. Coupled with the
explosive growth of IoT and endpoints as well as the requirement
for workloads, users and devices to be connected anywhere, the
operational costs of managing these complexities become
prohibitive.
Arista CloudVision, built on the Cognitive Management Plane
(CMP) engine, is a proven and powerful platform for turnkey
orchestration, provisioning and telemetry. Born initially in the
datacenter era, CloudVision now extends the same common operational
model to the campus providing unified wired, wireless and
datacenter management.
Today’s wired and wireless campus networks must cope with
ever-increasing endpoint devices necessitating the understanding of
endpoint behavior. CloudVision’s latest feature Device Analyzer
provides inventory and deep flow analysis of all connected devices.
Campus administrators can access device type, connectivity method,
location and communication patterns. This visibility enables an
administrator to identify unauthorized traffic and compromised
endpoints. Since CloudVision spans the datacenter and the campus,
customers can leverage a single platform for end-to-end
troubleshooting.
Arista Delivers Cognitive WiFi
With the acquisition of Mojo Networks, Arista now integrates the
wireless edge via the CloudVision platform. The Cognitive WiFi
architecture is tailored to enable an Arista access point portfolio
in a controller-less wireless network. These AP solutions are
available in disaggregated options harnessing the power of cloud,
machine learning and cognitive computing to deliver great
experiences to WiFi users. Arista’s Cognitive WiFi delivers massive
scalability, and a linear pay-as-you-go pricing model, providing a
predictable total cost of ownership path. CloudVision WiFi is based
on a similar CMP model for cognitive analytics unifying the
operational experience across wired and wireless. CloudVision WiFi
enhances real-time insight into the experience of WiFi clients to
connect and utilize the network. The Client Journey is a set of
dashboards that help operators diagnose client connectivity, track
availability of network services and identify root cause of WiFi
issues with live and historical telemetry data for proactive
assessment of client to application performance.
Arista Cognitive Campus includes a suite of WiFi Tracer tools
for wireless security, reachability and network health diagnostics.
Integrated Wireless Intrusion Protection System (WIPS) protects
networks against rogue APs, honeypots and implements device
classification to determine authorized client devices connecting to
unauthorized APs. Additional WIPS scanning is accomplished via a
dedicated third radio which can also perform various network
performance and health diagnostics. The AP can simulate a client
device--association and authentication instrumenting identity and
access (AAA and DHCP/DNS) latencies, connectivity to the upstream
network and voice calls to calculate MOS score and network
throughput. These automated tests can be pre-scheduled without
administrator intervention ensuring business ready WiFi.
CloudVision WiFi applications fuses Arista access points with cloud
networking spines and splines for a seamless topology view.
Product Availability
The Arista Cognitive WiFi software and family of disaggregated
access points is available now, including the new Client Journey
and WiFi Tracer feature sets. Arista’s CloudVision for Campus is
available in Q4 2018 for early field trials and general
availability in the first half of 2019.
Register here to learn more about Arista’s Cognitive Campus at
our webinar on October 25, 2018.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks pioneered software-driven, cognitive cloud
networking for large-scale datacenter and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms redefine and deliver availability,
agility, automation, analytics and security. Arista has shipped
more than fifteen million cloud networking ports worldwide with
CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system.
Committed to open standards across private, public and hybrid cloud
solutions, Arista products are supported worldwide directly and
through partners.
ARISTA, EOS, CloudVision, and Cognitive WiFi are among the
registered and unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in
jurisdictions around the world. Other company names or product
names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Additional
information and resources can be found at www.arista.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to, statements regarding the benefits of
Arista's CloudVision and Cognitive WiFi including the reduction of
operational costs, increased network reliability, visibility and
performance and greater scalability as well as the expected
availability of these products. All statements other than
statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject
to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or
results to differ materially from those expressed in the
forward-looking statements including: our limited operating history
and experience with developing and releasing new products including
those for the WiFi and Campus markets; product, support or service
quality problems; rapidly evolving changes in technology, customer
requirements and industry standards as well as other risks stated
in our filings with the SEC available on Arista's website at
www.arista.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Arista
disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statement to reflect events that occur or
circumstances that exist after the date on which they were
made.
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