Arista Campus LAN Switches Reviews

In general, the product works fine and is efficient. It was mainly used by someone else in my company, and I just used to operate it.

The solution's most valuable feature is its stability because Arista falls in an industry that is very similar to Cisco. If the engineer knows Cisco's solution, then Arista is also known to them.

The whole network is established through the switching platform, and on top of that, we use Fortinet.

We have numerous implementations of Arista switches. Cisco has a significant issue. It cannot maintain its service commitment regarding daily LAN returns, leading to client dissatisfaction. There are substantial delivery delays. Furthermore, Cisco currently charges double for the same product, which impacts cost-effectiveness.

We found an issue with Arista Campus LAN Switches regarding license renewals. We have to renew the license every three years, which can be a challenge for customers. Arista, like other vendors, now follows a license-based system.

In the past, we could purchase a Cisco system that would run without needing continuous license renewals. However, the current model requires regular license renewals, typically every three years, similar to Arista's approach.

The renewal cost for Arista licenses is quite high. For instance, Cisco's renewal cost is about 22% of the total system cost, and Aroware also has a 22% renewal cost. In contrast, Arista's renewal cost is almost 55% or more, presenting a significant challenge for customers.

I use the solution for connectivity in data centers and LANs, providing Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity based on network needs.

I think there's still room for improvement. Arista Campus LAN Switches are not highly scalable as they are hardware-based. If hardware requirements exceed capacity, the product needs to be changed, which can impact service.

We have a controller-based deployment template for switches. All that you need to do is simply create templates for switches that would have a similar configuration and roll it out.

It's like configuring one switch. The amount of energy and time that you spend to configure one switch can allow you to configure tens of hundreds of switches. The single template can be pushed out across the entire campus.

The template functionality saves a lot of time and man-hours, which results in cost and time savings.

The good part is the CLI is similar to an industry-standard CLI or Cisco, which usually is considered as the industry standard due to the size of the deployment and the tools they have. 

The feature sets are pretty cool. They've got almost everything that the competition offers. The good part is they help you get rid of the switch-tracking deployment models.

They use an approach that ensures that the number of switches that you require is on the lower side. You could have your core communicating directly with the access and that results in cost-saving overall when you look at it from a project cost perspective.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is very good.

Technical support is great.

I am working as a system engineer and I work with a variety of networking products, such as the Arista Campus LAN Switches.

The management portal has improved the way our organization functions. Arista software is of good quality, and you can manage all of your products through a single management portal. It offers good visibility of the telemetry data, which is important because you can see lots of data in real-time. Also, you can easily see your topology.

We are resellers.

This solution is used for one of our clients in group services that is a community center here in Brazil.

QoS is the most valuable feature because our clients work with VOIP and Critical applications.

The interface is very good.

1. Built on the open source platform which is known as Arista EOS, open standard and extensible.
2. Does not lock in investment - You can inter-operate Arista switches with other switches and applications via Arista Open APIs.
3. The Software Defined switch architecture, runs optimized 2-tier network instead of traditional 3-tier network (Core, Distribution and Access) gives you efficiency and savings.
4. With their condensed fabric switches for datacenter, helps customer achieves lower TCO per port.
5. Scalable / Density.
6. Up to 64x10 Gbe ports or 256x10Gbe ports in 2U appliance.

More Products have been launched recently such as the 7280R Universal Leaf Platforms.

Able to work with a lot of technology partners like Riverbed, Nutanix and Citrix.