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Don't they run on commodity Broadcom ASICs?

• cgh 8y ago
  Yes but then again, so do some Cisco switches nowadays. Arista's management team is former Cisco as well. There is a tangled legal history between the two companies, with Cisco claiming various patent infringements. So far as I know, none of the claims are hardware-related.
  • xvf22 8y ago
    Previous poster claimed that all of the magic was hardware but I've always been told that it was in the software. HPE now seems to have some agreement with Arista.
• mcpherrinm 8y ago
  Modern network ASICs are highly-programmable devices. So you can implement a lot of magic on the same hardware as competitors. It's really not one way or the other, but the software and hardware working together that's important. [disclaimer: I am a former Arista employee. I did some of the "light" Fedora modifications.]
  • SEJeff 8y ago
    Did I get it wrong? One thing we found interesting is that we could run unmodified software directly on the switches so long as we built it for the AMD Athlons running on them.