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

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

Metamako Customer Statistic

Ease of Use

73% of surveyed customers say that using the same device for Tapping, Aggregation, and Timestamping functions would simplify the network.

Metamako Customer Research

Tapping is the dominant Metamako data capture use case. Is timestamping the biggest opportunity?

Thinking specifically about your Metamako devices, which non- latency-reduction functions do you use Metamako for?

Tapping
72%
Monitoring
34%
Timestamping
32%
Network problem diagnosis
19%
Analytics
15%
We use it only for latency reduction
13%
Network security
2%
Risk management
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.”

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.

Metamako Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Metamako:

Would you recommend Metamako?

Yes, they are the best in their class.

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.


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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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