Arista Networks Platform Valuable Features
The product's CLI is similar to what Cisco offers. There is one image for all products that fall under Arista Networks Platform. The aforementioned areas can be considered as aspects that I like the most above the product.
In general, the most valuable features of the product are related to its prices along with the technology that it offers to its users.
The most valuable aspect of Arista Networks products is their ease of configuration, especially when compared to Cisco products. When we implement advanced features for data centers such as BGP EVPN and VXLAN, Arista's configuration process is similar to that of Cisco's process, but at the same time it is simply much easier, clearer, and more understandable.
It's important to us that Arista devices have only one operating system, whereas in Cisco products, there are several different products and different features and not all of them are compatible with one another. Arista devices can be managed more easily this way, and it gives us peace-of-mind that we can quickly tell which features we have access to.
The Arista switches are also extremely stable and are capable of high throughput (up to 400 gigabits) for maximum scalability.
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Arista Networks Platform
April 2024
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reviewer1876488
Technical Presales Engineer at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The solution offers a lot of features. We were able to organize our network around them.
The configuration capabilities were good.
View full review »Arista Networks Platform is comfortable, easy to deploy, and easy to manage, with non-blocking technology. Additionally, it has a useful CloudVision platform and automation capabilities.
View full review »I like the spine as a leaf model and low latency. The hardware is robust and meets expected latency in all environments, mainly if you belong to the media or trading industry. For multicast-based solutions, Arista is number one.
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Seth Hink
Senior Network Engineer II at Mercury General Corporation
It is very stable. It has good hardware and very stable code. It provides good value for its price.
They are a very lean type of organization, so they are very responsive, and they are able to focus more on their platform versus having multiple products out there.
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Milton Montoya
Mr at MMP Computer Services
The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily. Plus, deployment is a breeze, and if issues arise, restoring a backup takes just 30 minutes. Arista has become a reliable and efficient solution for our network security requirements.
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Dibyendu Das
Director at Apace Systems Corporation
Arista is a nice platform. It's an extremely reliable platform for the network switches we use.
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reviewer1084986
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the Linux shell, which is useful for troubleshooting or capturing traffic.
View full review »What we like most is its performance to price ratio. We also like the standard-based approach in contrast to other vendors in the network market, and the constant and timely support.
They support open standard features, and they have one feature that is proprietary and is marked VARP. That is the way for any cash routing. You can do that at the top of the rack layers. Juniper doesn't support this, and they don't have a chipset. Juniper claims that they have a feature where they can do symmetrical IRB, but their product hasn't been tested. Arista Networks Platform is widely used for all data centers.
View full review »Arista is a good performer in terms of networking and has been rated as one of the leaders in Gartner.
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Aunally Maloo
CEO at Mart Networks Group
What we're frequently using in Arista Networks Platform is CloudVision. It's what we found most valuable.
View full review »The most valuable features of the Arista Networks Platform are the EVPN and VXLAN. It has comprehensive features.
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Didan Esa Fabel Aji Purbawasesa
System Engineer at VTI
Arista Networks Platform has a feature that helps with monitoring and management.
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reviewer1488462
Vice President, Network Engineering at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Great latency (bundled with great L1/L2/L3 features) depending on platforms.
We find the CloudVision switching feature of this solution really useful.
The UI for this product is also very good: user-friendly and familiar feeling.
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reviewer1644681
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
If you have a large network, it's one of the easiest solutions to deploy and manage.
The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy, which is a big plus when compared to maybe Cisco, HP, or Juniper, where you get into these different operating systems based on the model.
Against that, if you look at the competitors, you always have to worry about the operating system that the older units are running on, and the integration between the old and new, and what are the limitations and stuff like that. All those questions you simply don't have to worry about when you talk about Arista. Therefore, the deployment becomes pretty easy.
The solution is very stable.
Technical support is extremely responsive and helpful.
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reviewer1487706
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial installation is very straightforward.
A company can scale the solution if it needs to.
The solution is very stable.
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reviewer1421613
Cyber Security Consultant and Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It provides telemetry and visibility for many metrics that are not supported by most of the other vendors. Out of the box, no third party solutions are needed.
CloudVision is the central management, and all the features installed are from the same vendor. I like that telemetry and metrics are available. Also, the provisioning feature and all these features are from the same vendor.
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Arista Networks Platform
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Arista Networks Platform. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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