Unified WiFi-Wired Edge optimizes client to IoT
to cloud experience
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced unified edge
innovations across wired and wireless networks for its Cognitive
Campus portfolio. The Cognitive Campus is the next-generation,
analytics-driven approach to delivering advanced security,
visibility, and location-based services while optimizing the client
to cloud experience. The new solutions will help enterprises
simplify and secure their operational experiences across evolving
enterprise workspaces and the proliferation of IoT (Internet of
Things).
"Enterprise campus networks are a dynamic place with a mix of
remote workspaces, IoT devices and myriad high-bandwidth,
low-latency applications. Enterprises can benefit from advanced
management systems that stretch across the wireless and wired
networks that leverage AI-based analytics, secured access,
real-time telemetry, and common wired and wireless dashboards to
provide client-to-cloud visibility," said Brandon Butler, IDC
Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Networks. "Arista's Cognitive
Campus combines architecture, infrastructure and software
management tools to support the modern needs of today's
business."
Arista addresses the unified edge with a series of new
capabilities across wired and wireless networks, including a
simplified architecture, new wired and wireless visibility tools,
new WiFi 6 access points, enhancements for remote teleworkers, a
contact-tracing application, and secured access integrations.
Arista’s Cognitive AI-Driven Architecture
The next-generation campus, connecting end-users and IoT devices
to the data center and cloud-based applications, brings focus to
the enterprise network edge. Coupled with the explosive growth of
various IoT devices, the campus network edge must handle additional
demands across both wired and wireless networks. Enterprises
require a new type of management architecture for this unified edge
that provides a consistent view of wired and wireless with
granular, real-time, comprehensive datasets, driving insightful
recommendations to the operator.
CloudVision® is built based on an enhanced, cognitive AI-driven
approach to network inference and analytics. Pioneered by Arista,
cognitive NetDB is a state-based, cloud-hosted, network-wide
database that collects real-time, streaming data using
standards-based APIs, providing an approach that is dramatically
more powerful than traditional network management systems.
Cognitive NetDB® leverages advanced AI and machine learning
techniques across wired and wireless data for proactive fault
resolution, secured workflows, and visibility across IoT, users
(remote, branch, and campus), and endpoints.
CloudVision for Cognitive Unified Edge
This cognitive NetDB architecture helps drive insightful
analytics across application quality of experience, predictive
network assurance, and secure operations, including the following
new CloudVision capabilities:
- Anomaly Detection across time-series data, including predictive
alerting for events such as application reachability, resource
utilization, and device state monitoring.
- Compliance Dashboard provides a proactive risk assessment of
the wired and now wireless infrastructure by automatically
identifying known security vulnerabilities and software defects and
their potential impact across the network estate.
- Arista P-Tracer helps identify a user’s location over a given
period of time, providing critical information necessary for
today’s COVID era for contact tracing. In addition, Arista is
partnering with leading location-based services vendors to bring:
- Tracking of smart devices, including phones, watches, laptops,
and tablets.
- Healthcare asset tracking system integrations for analysis and
reporting of the proximity of patients, staff, visitors, and
location of critical healthcare assets.
Endpoint to Edge Networking with IoTvision
The two main challenges of managing modern campus networks at
scale are ensuring a high quality of experience across all
connected devices and quickly detecting and tracking down issues
that arise. This means understanding which devices are on the wired
and wireless network, what they're doing, and whether they're
properly segmented.
To address this, CloudVision is introducing IoTvision™, a
purpose-built dashboard that provides a summarized assessment of
endpoint experience. IoTvision is designed to address the modern
campus, bringing user and endpoint device details together in a
simplified view for common monitoring and troubleshooting across
wired and wireless. IoTvision collects critical endpoint
information in an easy-to-read, single view, providing the operator
with a consolidated view of endpoint inventory, device type,
connection status, traffic patterns, and quality of experience
across endpoints connected to both the wired and the wireless
network.
Secure Access for the COVID Era
The Arista Remote Access Point solution empowers enterprise
customers with the ability to extend the Unified Edge to new mobile
remote workplaces such as a teleworkers’ home office, temporary
workspaces, or a remote branch office. This includes working with
leading security and network access control vendors to provide
seamless access to corporate resources and applications. New
benefits include:
- Investment Protection - Integrates seamlessly with installed
security infrastructure from Palo Alto Networks, Checkpoint, and
other third-party firewall vendors, eliminating the need for
separate controllers and management infrastructure.
- Single Sign-on Access - Arista’s new integration with Okta’s
SSO infrastructure delivers a single sign-on for both network
access and applications, simplifying security administration and
end-user access management.
- Aruba ClearPass Integration - Natively integrates with Aruba
ClearPass to enable dynamic, role-based access control for seamless
security enforcement and response across Arista wired and wireless
networks.
- Forescout eyeSight Integration - Arista and Forescout provide
automated security posture assessment, compliance and remediation,
discovery and classification of workstations, laptops, printers,
cameras, and other IoT devices.
New Access WiFi 6 Access Points
Arista also introduces two new WiFi 6 access points with cost
points and feature sets ideal for critical enterprise high-density
WiFi deployments in indoor and outdoor environments. These access
points are orderable and shipping now.
- C-230/E
- An enterprise-grade, 6-stream Wi-Fi 6 AP with dual concurrent 5
GHz and 2.4 GHz band radios with ceiling and wall mount options and
support for both internal and external antennas.
- O-235/E
- A ruggedized enterprise-grade, outdoor 6-stream Wi-Fi 6 AP with
dual concurrent 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz band radios, including support
for both external and internal antennas.
Availability
The Unified Edge suite of cognitive capabilities will be
generally available for all customers starting in Q4 2020 as part
of their CloudVision software subscription.
Register here to learn more about Arista’s Cognitive Campus
Workspaces at our webinar on October 29, 2020 with our
partners.
Read more about this announcement on Jayshree Ullal's blog
here.
Learn more about Arista’s Cognitive Cloud Networking portfolio
here.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks is an industry leader in cognitive cloud
networking solutions for large data center and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility,
automation analytics, and security through CloudVision® and Arista
EOS®, an advanced network operating system. For more information,
visit www.arista.com.
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