This coming from Arista is unsurprising because their original niche was low-latency, and the first industries that they made in-roads in against the 'incumbent

This coming from Arista is unsurprising because their original niche was low-latency, and the first industries that they made in-roads in against the 'incumbents' was finance: > The low-latency of Arista switches has made them prevalent in high-frequency trading environments, such as the Chicago Board Options Exchange[50] (largest U.S. options exchange) and RBC Capital Markets.[51] As of October 2009, one third of its customers were big Wall Street firms.[52] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Networks They've since expanded into more areas, and are said to be fairly popular with hyper-scalers. Often recommended in forums like /r/networking (support is well-regarded). One of the co-founders is Andy Bechtolsheim, also a co-founder of Sun, and who wrote Brin and Page one of the earliest cheques to fund Google: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim