Arista Networks Platform Reviews

Arista Networks Platform is used for non-blocking switches. We are using them in the data centers for spine-leaf connectivity. There are servers hooked to these switches.

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.

Arista Networks Platform should focus on improving the compatibility or integration with Cisco solutions.

I have been using the Arista Networks Platform for approximately two years.

I have found the Arista Networks Platform to be stable.

Arista Networks Platform is highly scalable.

We have approximately 250,000 users that go through the data center which passes through the Arista Networks Platform.

The technical support is good from the Arista Networks Platform. However, we are waiting on a response back from them regarding enhancements. We have not received a positive response.

We were previously using Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco Catalyst switches

The installation is simple. It takes approximately two hours for each Arista Networks Platform to implement.

We used an integrator to implement the Arista Networks Platform.

We have three to four engineers who work on Arista Networks Platform deployments.

We have decided not to expand the Arista Networks Platform because of some of the issues we have had.

There is an annual license required to use the Arista Networks Platform.

I rate the Arista Networks Platform a seven out of ten.

In my previous job, I used the solution to make connections, remove connections, to work plans, plan for the future, et cetera. We had a big Cisco router with 9,000 connections and we were connecting and disconnecting. I wasn't the person directing the equipment so deeply, as I wasn't a member of the network team. I was a member of the broadcasting and distribution team. This solution was used largely for making physical connections. 

The solution offers a lot of features. We were able to organize our network around them.

The configuration capabilities were good. 

I do prefer the Cisco interface.

Cisco is not too user-friendly, however, in terms of the comments to deploy the configurations, to change or update configurations, Cisco is easy compared to Arista.

We did at one point have a software bug. I remember that sometimes they used to make the physical connection and then everything was all right, however, the port, the physical port didn't come up. We needed to set the port down and then up again to work. 

We also had a problem when using the internet service providers that connected to Arista. When the internet was down and came up again, the suite couldn't recognize and keep the status as unavailable.

The solution is a bit pricey.

I am at a new job, however, I have used the solution within the past year. I used it for about five months. 

The solution did have a bug when I dealt with it. 

I have previously worked with Cisco solutions. Not deep, but I have some experience with switches and with routers.

I am focusing on broadcasting and broadcasting solutions, broadcasting equipment, and cloud solutions. I have some experience with Azure and Azure deploys using PowerShell, using ScriptRunner, and this kind of stuff.

I know that Arista is more expensive than the Catalyst or Nexus.

I can't speak to the exact pricing. 

I was an Arista customer. 

I wasn't a part of the integration process and therefore can't speak to those capabilities. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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.

The solution is quite expensive. One of the negative aspects of it is the pricing. 

I've used the solution for a while. I was an employee at Arista for a couple of years. In addition to that, I have almost four customers who have been using Arista.

The solution is absolutely stable. If you look at the customer base, that itself is a testimony. They have a very, very good customer base, and it's a pretty stable solution. Rarely we have encountered any challenges with Arista.

The solution works well for large-scale organizations.

The nice thing about technical support from Arista is you don't have to go through multiple levels of check-ups where there is someone who collects your information and stuff and then passes on the baton to someone else. That's not how they work. It's an engineer on the call who would directly help you out, which saves a lot of time and headache. The whole time with the technical support of Arista is significantly lower than others. My experience has been that when you call Arista tech support, your call is answered within a couple of minutes. Compared to the rest, where it could be 15 to 20 minutes at least, it's great. Arista is very quick on the response time when it comes to assistance.

I also have an understanding of Cisco, HP, and Juniper.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward and simple. For roughly around 50 switches, you could deploy them in a day with the manpower of maybe two people.

Even for probably a network which is moderately sized, a couple of admins would do the job in terms of maintenance. They could deploy and just hold it. If you have a lot of changes to make every now and then they can handle it. That part would completely depend upon the operations that are carried out.

The product is fairly expensive. It's not a cheap option. Clients need to be ready to pay.

There's an annual license with Arista. Though the unit of calculation is monthly, the license has to be procured on an annual basis. It's an annual license, and again, it's pricy.

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. The only negative that applies to them is the price.

I would recommend Arista for enterprises considering their price point, however, I would not recommend it for the SME/SMB market. Although it's a wonderful product, the price is something that an SME or SMB cannot afford.

It basically is the switching room platform for both of our data centers. We've got two private data centers in California.

We are fully upgraded, so we are running the latest version of this solution.

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.

Its price can be better. 

We deployed Arista in 2019 to replace our Cisco devices.

It is very stable.

Its scalability is really good. All of our data centers, systems, storage, and applications are using it. It is being used for everything that we host on-prem. All of our users are essentially using it.

They've been really good. I actually enjoy them a lot more than Cisco. I would rate them a nine or ten out of ten. They solve issues. I've opened five cases, and I haven't had a poor experience with any of the cases.

We were using Cisco devices. What we really liked about Arista is that they have embraced a more open multi-vendor approach. Cisco is more towards a closed proprietary. After deploying Arista, we saw quite a few congestion issues that we were having with Cisco being resolved.

It was fairly easy.

It is pretty pricey for a networking platform. It is on par with Cisco.

I would recommend this solution. We've been happy with it. I don't really have too many complaints about it. They are pretty good about releasing new features. They keep adding new features on their centrally managed platform, which is CloudVision. 

I would rate Arista Networks Platform a nine out of ten. 

We use the solution for networking infrastructure and network detection.

Arista is a good performer in terms of networking and has been rated as one of the leaders in Gartner.

The solution’s pricing could be better.

I have been using Arista Networks Platform for two years.

The product’s stability is excellent.

The solution is scalable.

There are about four or five customers in my region.

Arista has excellent tech support distributed around the world.

The initial setup is easy and depends from scenario to scenario.

The product is expensive and has a yearly subscription.

Three people, including admins, are required for the solution’s maintenance.

I recommend the solution.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use the solution to provide multi-layer switches for the networks in our client's data centers, the majority of whom are based in the banking sector.

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.

The stability of this solution needs to be improved as part of the next upgrade.

We have been working with this solution for about one year.

We have found this solution to be mostly stable, but we have occasionally had issues with buffering of the switches.

This solution has very good scalability.

The technical support team for this solution are very good and respond to our queries quickly. 

The initial setup of this solution is easy to carry out.

We would recommend this solution to other organizations in the banking sector.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We use the Arista Networks Platform for our data center features.

The most valuable features of the Arista Networks Platform are the EVPN and VXLAN. It has comprehensive features.

The overall price of the Arista Networks Platform is expensive. It should be reduced.

I have been using the Arista Networks Platform for approximately four years.

Arista Networks Platform is stable.

The scalability of the Arista Networks Platform is good.

I was satisfied with the technical support.

We used Extreme previously.

The initial setup of the Arista Networks Platform is straightforward. It took use approximately a half-day to complete.

We did the implementation in-house.

The price of the Arista Networks Platform could be less expensive for the hardware and license.

My advice to others is to learn from the Arista team to have better knowledge and understanding before deployment. It does help.

I rate Arista Networks Platform a nine out of ten.

What we're frequently using in Arista Networks Platform is CloudVision. It's what we found most valuable.

An area for improvement we see in Arista Networks Platform is its integration, e.g. it needs to have more integration with its new products. It should have good integration with multiple wireless, security, and other products they recently acquired. Everybody needs just one dashboard, e.g. we are looking at where we can monitor all the other products which Arista Networks Platform has recently acquired.

Incorporating more security and cloud in terms of the journey to digital transformation is also another area for improvement in Arista Networks Platform, because more and more companies would like to have the incorporation of both cloud and security into their firmware.

An additional feature we'd like to see in the next release of Arista Networks Platform has everything to do with permissions. If you're looking at interfacing with other vendors, they need to have open protocols like API, so that it becomes easier for threat backing integration.

We've been dealing with Arista Networks Platform over the last four years.

Arista Networks Platform provides good support.

The deployment of Arista Networks Platform was very straightforward.

We're using both Arista Networks Platform and Aruba switches. We use Aruba switches mainly for wireless and campus, while Arista Networks Platform we are using more for the data center.

We are a distributor for Arista and Aruba.

Deployment for Arista Networks Platform is on-premises, with a bit of public cloud, but most of the deployment is on-premises.

I would put Arista Networks Platform at a ten out of ten rating, particularly because of their support and their features.

We are manufacturers for certain storage platforms and we have our own storage software for enabling GPU clustering. We work more in the video segment. We have our own solutions that we put on that particular cluster which enable a remote workspace management portal for people who are into content. We don't generally provide solutions for micro-level storage customers that are dealing with your retail data or the like. We specialize in macro-computing, video analytics, audio/video editing solutions, editing over the cloud, and remote editing of spaces. It's a very specialized platform.

We set up a private cloud architecture for customers. There are certain customers who are large-scale photo editors, video editors — companies like BBC — that are in the content business. They don't want their content to be on multi-user platforms. They want to have control of their platforms. We have a solution where they can have a YouTube-like experience, but it's totally private. We have very bespoke solutions for media-related mining.

Arista is a nice platform. It's an extremely reliable platform for the network switches we use.

We have never seen a project where people have complained that it's not working. Never.

We have found their networks to be very high-end, low-latency, and we have never had a problem scaling up.

Generally, Arista's technical support is prompt. There can be delays but they're not bad. When we go back to them, they get the job done. They are very good at support.

Overall, Arista is a good team to work with. They are very straightforward.

Arista is very expensive. Not everybody is in a position to spend $70,000 to $80,000 for one switch.

For our customers that have a budget of $4,000 to $5,000 for one switch fabric, we generally recommend NETGEAR. That is also a very good switch. If somebody wants something cheaper than that, we recommend they go for something else.

For a market like India, Africa, and Asia, people always think twice because Arista is expensive compared to the competition. Of course, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. There are no other products that you can directly compare with Arista. It's the difference between getting a V12 engine and a generic engine. You need to be able to afford a V12. Arista is not for everybody.

We have deployed many enterprise platform switches, depending on the customer's capacity to buy a given platform. We have tested the Huawei switches. For certain protocols and traffic, and especially for video transmissions, Huawei has a good platform. But it's not like Arista, which has the highest one. Cisco has a bit of delay and a lag. From a robustness perspective, you pay a premium for Arista but you get the most from it.

We don't recommend Cisco because Cisco is a very different ballgame altogether. It's more into infrastructure networking data management. Cisco is made for something very different. When you are talking about IoT, Cisco meets expectations.

I would recommend Arista for certain applications, for microbiological and molecular calculations; for supercomputing. If you are looking for an ultra-low latency network, this is the only solution. There is nothing else that is similar.

It has low-latency, stability, and scalability because it is modular. If you have the budget, go for it.

We use it more like a complete network operations center.

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.

The cost of Arista Networks Platform is high; it is more expensive than other networking solutions.

Also, the community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more.

Maybe, if they had out-of-the-box NetFlow features to integrate with third party solutions, it will be good.

I've been working with it for about 10 months now as a system integrator.

We sell physical appliances to our customers for their on-premises deployment.

One of our future customers will use Arista Networks Platform to support around 1,500 employees.

Two technicians would be sufficient for deployment because with Arista Networks Platform, you have the Zero Touch Provisioning feature. You have simple management, which reduces the number of hands needed to work with the solution.

Cost wise, Arista Networks Platform is more expensive than other networking solutions.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this solution at nine.