TechValidate Research on Arista

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856 Customers Surveyed

6,999 Data Points Collected

148 Published TechFacts

17 Published Charts

6 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Adding MetaConnect to our infrastructure gave us latency benefits and automatic tapping benefits.

IT Manager, Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

Case Study: Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise financial services company is based on a December 2015 survey of Metamako customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Metamako devices simplify networks, reduce latency, and increase flexibility.”

Challenges

  • Key drivers for purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Lower trading latency
    • Gain operational advantages
  • Evaluated the following other vendors before purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Exablaze
    • XCelor
    • Arista

Use Case

  • Rates the following Metamako capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Latency profile: best in class
    • Signal re-generation: best in class
    • Layer 1+ features (stats etc): best in class
    • Ease of use: best in class
    • Reliability: best in class
  • Top use cases for implementing Metamako devices:
    • Connection Monitoring
    • Reconfigurable Patch Panel
    • Media Converter

Results

  • Found Metamako’s support services to be better than other network vendors.

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Metamako:

TAP / Media converter / Configurable patch panel for our monitoring infrastructure.

Would you recommend Metamako?

It’s a good product, easy to use. It does the job.

Metamako use-cases

What are Metamako clients using their devices for?

Connection Monitoring
46%
Reconfigurable Patch Panel
54%
Media Converter
32%
Failover
5%
Circuit Breaker/Kill Switch
16%
Scalable Broadcast
19%
Tapping
65%
Timestamping
35%
Deploy custom written applications or FPGA code
22%
Test Lab
24%
Multiplexing Connections (Order Entry)
51%
Tap Aggregation
35%

Case Study: Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise financial services company is based on a December 2015 survey of Metamako customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Metamako devices simplify networks, reduce latency, and increase flexibility.”

Challenges

  • Key drivers for purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Lower trading latency
    • Meet compliance regulations
  • Evaluated the following other vendors before purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Exablaze
    • XCelor
    • Arista

Use Case

  • Rates the following Metamako capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Latency profile: better
    • Layer 1+ features (stats etc): better
    • Ease of use: significantly better
    • Reliability: better
  • Top use cases for implementing Metamako devices:
    • Reconfigurable Patch Panel
    • Media Converter
    • Circuit Breaker/Kill Switch
    • Timestamping
    • Deploy custom written applications or FPGA code

Results

  • Found Metamako’s support services to be better than other network vendors.

Metamako Customer Research

40G bandwidth is coming.

Within twelve months, which of the following do you plan to implement?

10G Ethernet
47%
40G Ethernet
44%
No change planned
33%
25G Ethernet
20%
100G Ethernet
16%
Infiniband
5%
Omnipath
0%


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About Arista

Arista Networks pioneered software-driven, cognitive cloud networking for large-scale datacenter and campus environments. Arista's award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50G consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

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