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


Metamako Customer Statistic

Latency Matters

94% of users purchased Metamako to lower latency.

Metamako Customer Research

Metamako is a technology leader in the top packet capture use cases.

Which functions are are part of your data capture environment?
(regardless of whether Metamako devices are used)

Latency measurement
80%
Timestamping
76%
Realtime network analytics
57%
Back testing
56%
Network problem diagnosis
52%
Compliance captures
50%
Risk management
28%
Security
11%
MIFID II Obligations
7%
Intrusion/Extrusion detection
4%
We do not use data capture
2%

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.”

“The products have allowed us to implement complex solutions in a more manageable and reliable fashion.”

Challenges

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

Use Case

  • Rates the following Metamako capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Latency profile: significantly better
    • Signal re-generation: better
    • Ease of use: better
    • Reliability: better
  • Top use cases for implementing Metamako devices:
    • Connection Monitoring
    • Reconfigurable Patch Panel
    • Media Converter
    • Failover
    • Scalable Broadcast
    • Timestamping
    • Deploy custom written applications or FPGA code
    • Test Lab
    • Multiplexing Connections (Order Entry)
    • Tap Aggregation

Results

  • Reduced their operational costs by up to 25% with Metamako.
  • Found Metamako’s support services to be better than other network vendors.
  • Improved their trading hit-rate after deploying Metamako.

Metamako Customer Review

Optimise your trading platform ….

4.5/5 Stars

Metamako helps us bring our trading network to the next level in terms of speed, analytics and control!

Are there any additional features and functionalities that you would like to see available on Metamako devices and/or applications in the future? Feel free to list as many as you like. Please also explain the reasons.

Case Study: Small Business Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a small business 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.

“The Metamako device improves latency and is the best implementation of this technology we’ve found.”

Challenges

  • Key driver for purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Lower trading latency
  • Evaluated the following other vendors before purchasing Metamako devices:
    • Exablaze
    • Arista

Use Case

  • Rates the following Metamako capabilities compared to the competition:
    • Layer 1+ features (stats): better
    • Ease of use: significantly better
  • Top use case for implementing Metamako devices:
    • Scalable Broadcast

Results

  • improved their trading hit-rate after deploying Metamako.

Metamako Customer Research

Metamako Clients: 2017 Goals

Please prioritize the following relative to your organisation’s 2017 goals.

Critically Important - 1 2 3 4 Minimal Importance - 5

Latency reduction
Deterministic performance
Implement SDN strategy
FPGA implementation
Implement 25G, 40G, 100G
Data capture
Improve network monitoring
Devops integration/rollout


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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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