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Arista uses commodity ASICs which are programmed from specialized binary blobs running in a linux based userspace. This is the same thing linux whitebox switche
by intorio 8y ago
Arista uses commodity ASICs which are programmed from specialized binary blobs running in a linux based userspace. This is the same thing linux whitebox switches do.
- SEJeff 8y agoSorry I should have better specified. The magic is in the asics that are programmed with their own proprietary magic, but most of the userspace is written in python, and it is relatively well written python.