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 Research

Top Use Cases for Metamako

Multiplexing Connections (order entry)
56%
Tapping
54%
High Resolution Timestamping
53%
Tap Aggregation
52%
Data Broadcast/Market Data replication
46%

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 Statistic

Metamako customer satisfaction

95% of surveyed customers agreed with the following statement:

“Metamako products are the best choice when it comes to latency reduction for trading.”

Arista TAC Case Study

Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.

Introduction

This case study of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. is based on a May 2022 survey of Arista TAC customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“It is very easy to open a ticket with Arista TAC and getting connected to a TAC Engineer is very fast.”

“The TAC response was excellent, and was exactly what I needed”

Challenges

The business reasons that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Arista:

  • Product quality and Reliable solutions.
  • A dependable Post-sales Support.

Use Case

The key features of Arista that the surveyed company is impressed by are:

  • Product quality and features
  • Post-Sales Support
  • Industry reputation
  • Account management and pre-sales engagement

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Arista:

  • Overall quality compared to other networking vendors:
    • post-sales support: Much better
    • software: Much better
  • Operational excellence because Arista TAC was excellent:
    • technical know-how of engineers: extremely satisfied
    • time to problem resolution: very satisfied
    • quality of case updates: very satisfied
    • responsiveness (initial and ongoing): very satisfied

Metamako Customer Research

Diverse range of Packet Capture use-cases

What are your top use cases for Metamako devices?

Tapping
63%
Reconfigurable Patch Panel
53%
Multiplexing Connections (Order Entry)
50%
Connection Monitoring
47%
Media Converter
34%
Tap Aggregation
34%
Timestamping
34%
Test Lab
24%
Deploy custom written applications or FPGA code
21%
Circuit Breaker/Kill Switch
18%
Scalable Broadcast
18%
Failover
8%

Metamako Customer Satisfaction

97% of customers would recommend Metamako to a colleague.

97%


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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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