The Arista 7100 series is the same hardware as the Juniper EX2500 and Blade Technologies RackSwitch G8124 (also the EX2500 does not run Junos as it is comes from Blade, probably because Juniper help fund their 2nd round). They all use the Fulcrum chipset. Out of interest anyone know what chipset the Foundry TurboIron 24X uses?
So should Arista be recognized for their hardware, or really for what they are attempting to achieve with their software?
Arista's 7100 series is vying to be the heart of the next-generation data center.Given the changes being wrought there by virtualization -- and the potential for carriers to take advantage of those changes by offering cloud-based services -- Arista's star could rise quickly.
Alcatel-Lucent's 100-Gbit/s cards (7750 Service Router & 7450 Ethernet Service Switch)
Every router vendor is claiming 100-Gbit/s capability for 2010, but AlcaLu is the first to explain its architecture in detail, one that's a simple upgrade from the technologies already shipping.
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s NE40E Universal Service Router
Huawei's ambitious router appears to match or trump pretty much every next-generation, 100-Gbit/s, services-added router claim out there. OK, Huawei. Here's your shot.
For the switching & routing Top Picks, an 11th-hour pitch from AdvancedIO:
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AdvancedIO Systems enables those who best understand their high bandwidth network security and monitoring needs - the operators and service providers themselves - to rapidly deploy effective targeted solutions. We do this by providing them with programmable technology containing the appropriate level of software infrastructure, which their application development talent can quickly build upon and integrate into their networks.
What differentiates us and makes our programmable platforms so easy to work with is the approach we take to realizing flexibility and scalability. Typically, this is facilitated by using general purpose or multi-core processor technology and providing an extensive and complex low-level API that can be used to construct solutions to everything and anything -- sort of a 'throwing in the kitchen sink' approach. In contrast, our paradigm, facilitated by our underlying technology, is to provide a platform that is optimized for specific applications and problems, and has a corresponding simple application-level API that developers can quickly learn and use. Scalability and flexibility to address evolving network security and monitoring requirements are achieved by re-targeting the same underlying platform hardware for other applications, and providing another correspondingly simple application-specific API. An analogy would be a medical specialist that can be instantly retrained to an equivalent level of proficiency in another specialty area. This 're-trainable specialist' paradigm, facilitated by our underlying technology, gives you more flexibility and scalability than the 'generalist' approaches, but without the associated programming complexity.
The technology that delivers this is called the expressXG™ Framework, along with the associated application modules, and it runs on our open-standards based V5000 and V8000 Series platforms. The framework has the added advantage of making the applications portable across platforms too, adding another degree of scalability and preservation of capital.
with a bit of prodding from the Light Reading editors, here are a few self-serving thoughts on the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router for the switching and routing top pick:
2. 100G with full suite of edge services (L2 VPNs, L3VPNs, Subscriber management etc.) as well as IP routing/transport– unlike T1600.
3. 100G interface isn’t oversubscribed – unlike ASR9K 16x10G linecard. Cisco’s own sponsored test of the ASR9K shows only 70G unidirectional throughput across the fabric, even with a very selective mix of multicast and unicast traffic - see http://www.miercom.com/dl.html?fid=20090827&type=report.
4. As well as routing and services, it has DPI too - up to 70Gb/s worth of “application assurance” for both residential and business services, with N+1 redundancy.
5. It's unique in being applicable across all three service provider "edge" networks - residential (BRAS/BNG), business (L2/L3 VPN) and mobile (LTE EPC).
Some data center/cloud competition for Arista: BLADE Network Technologies wants in.
Here's their pitch, below. But I have to wonder, does a top-of-rack switch have that much impact on the telecom world? What's the telecom impact here, Blade?
BLADE's 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switch products come in bladed and top-of-rack form factors, provide the ultra-low-latency required for high-frequency trading and other HPC applications, enable virtual switching for VM mobility using switch-resident software, and are FCoE-ready. BLADE has more than 9,000 customers including more than 300 of Fortune 500 companies.
Apologies to Enterasys for losing track of their initial email suggesting themselves for this category.
Then again -- foregoing the 100-Gig stuff for the moment, what would make Enterasys stand out against even just Arista? Anybody at Enterasys want to comment?
we have been experimenting with different DPI based traffic management systems for the past 4 years and none of them come close to Ipoque in terms of detection and shaping accuracy in multi-gigabit networks at wirespeed. the range of protocols and applications that they support is extensive and when ever we need them to detect a new protocol or application, it is usually done in a matter of days. they provide by far the best after-sales support we have ever seen. they are the only company in the networking industry on who's word we depend as they have proven themselves again and again reliable, steadfast and transparent in terms of performance, reliability and support. we don't consider them as a vendor but as a partner and in these times, this is quite an achievement. somehow the Ipoque folks have succeed of brining the famed German's auto industry creativity, performance and reliability to the Networking appliance world. Way to go guys...
I would like to submit Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics 40/100G as a Top Pick for the Switching & Routing.
Why does it fit? Simple, without the advancements in test & measurement how does one validate what can be achieved from base performance to end user experience. Test equipment has to scale to levels beyond what is being tested and has to have functionality to determine performance benchmarks while helping identify, isolate and resolve issues.
Why Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics 40/100G? IP and Routing are “Bread and Butter” for test equipment. But at 40/100G speeds it’s a break through. Companies having the capability to test Layer 1-7 are able to reduce their time to market by accelerating aspects such as development and verification while improving quality by finding issues in the lab and not in the field. Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics 40/100G does this and more.
Keeping with the spirit of these message boards for open discussion and not pure marketing statements, I invite people to agree or disagree why Spirent TestCenter 40/100G should a Top Pick nominee.
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