The Lippis Report

By Arista

The standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE802.3ae) was ratified in 2002. While 10GbE deployments have grown every year since then, the technology has primarily been used to interconnect switches and routers. Almost all of the server connections in data centers have remained at 1 Gbps, limiting the amount of network throughput available to each server. With recent enhancements in CPU performance, system I/O, and storage I/O the gigabit network has increasingly become the application and workload performance bottleneck.
The primary reason for staying with Gigabit Ethernet has been cost-performance. Until recently it has been more cost-effective to have multiple GbE connections rather than a single 10 GbE port. In addition, most installed servers typically cannot utilize the full bandwidth of a 10 GbE connection. However both of these factors are changing, which are leading to widespread adoption of 10 GbE for server connectivity over the next few years.

Download this white paper for an overview of the factors that are driving the growth for 10 GbE in the data center.

By Arista Networks
The adoption of virtualization in datacenters creates the need for a new class of networks designed to support elasticity of resource allocation, increasingly mobile workloads and the shift to production virtual workloads, requiring maximum availability. Building a network that spans both physical servers and virtual machines with consistent capabilities demands a new architectural approach to designing and building the IT infrastructure. Performance, elasticity, and logical addressing structures must be considered as well as the management of the physical and virtual networking infrastructure. Once deployed, a network that is virtualization ready can offer many revolutionary services over a common shared infrastructure.

By Arista Networks

The adoption of virtualization in data centers creates the need for a new class of networks designed to support elasticity of resource allocation, increasingly mobile workloads and the shift to production virtual workloads, requiring maximum availability. Building a network that spans both physical servers and virtual machines with consistent capabilities demands a new architectural approach to designing and building the IT infrastructure. Performance, elasticity, and logical addressing structures must be considered as well as the management of the physical and virtual networking infrastructure. Once deployed, a network that is virtualization-ready can offer many revolutionary services over a common shared infrastructure.

Find out how by downloading this paper here.

By Arista Networks

The standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE802.3ae) was ratified in 2002. While 10 GigE deployments have grown every year since then, the technology has primarily been used to interconnect switches and routers. Almost all the server connections in datacenters have remained at 1 Gbps, limiting the amount of network throughput available to each server. The primary reason for this has been cost-performance. Historically it has been more cost-effective to have multiple GigE connections rather than a single 10 GigE port. In addition, today’s servers typically cannot utilize the full bandwidth of a 10 GigE connection. However both of these factors are changing, which will lead to widespread adoption of 10 GigE for server connections over the next few years.

This white paper is an overview of the factors that are driving the growth for 10 GigE in the datacenter; download it now.

By Arista Networks

Performance and stability of the network is a business requirement for datacenter networking, where a single scalable fabric carries both network and storage traffic. Management processes must be scalable for successful deployment and operation, requiring a high degree of automation and integration into the customer’s unique environment. The design and architecture of the network operating system provides the foundation for meeting these requirements. The monolithic software architecture that runs on almost all of today’s network switches presents a fundamental design limitation to high network reliability. The stark reality is that a single bug or defect anywhere in the OS exposes the entire system to disruption since there is no mechanism for software fault containment. At the same time, with no isolation between multiple tasks it is difficult to scale these systems from a performance perspective or to add new functionality. In fact, making any significant changes to a code base that is measured in millions of lines of code will reduce product stability and reliability. The fragile monolithic approach inherently prevents extending the network operating system to implement new features such as integration with customer specific management processes.

Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) leapfrogs traditional network OS designs. Learn how by downloading this paper.

By Arista Networks

This one page document explains cloud computing and cloud networking in simple terms. It also distinguishes Server Virtualization from Cloud Computing. It’s short and to the point and if you’re interested in cloud computing, cloud networking and server virtualization you will be happy that you took the 2 minutes to read it.

Find out about cloud computing, cloud networking and server virtualization by downloading this paper.