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 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: 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

More uptake of analytics devices could create an opportunity for the Metamako NPB use case.

15% of surveyed customers currently deploy third party analytics (Corvil, Velocimetrics, etc).

15%

Metamako Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

Metamako products enable elegant network design for fan-in and fan-out solutions with deterministic, low-latency performance. It also reduces TCO through a network paradigm shift using Layer-1 technologies!

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.

Metamako Customer Research

Metamako is well positioned to upgrade much of the most widely deployed packet capture technologies.

What technologies are currently deployed for packet capture?
(regardless of whether Metamako devices are used)

Layer 1 switches
68%
Optical taps
58%
SPAN ports
58%
Aggregation switches 
57%
Data capture cards (Endace, etc)
38%
Third party analytics (Corvil, Velocimetrics, etc)
15%
Data capture probes (Gigamon, cPacket, etc)
9%

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.


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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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