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Arista Networks (formerly Arastra Networks), is a United States company which develops and markets 10 Gigabit, 40 Gigabit 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It has R&D offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

The company was named Arastra by founder Ken Duda, because of the company's initial office location off of Arastradero Road in Silicon Valley.

History
In 2004, Arastra Networks was founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, and Ken Duda. Initial seed funding was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton. No subsequent funding rounds have been disclosed. In 2008, Arastra Networks changed its name to Arista Networks and re-launched with a new management team including Jayshree Ullal as CEO, Andy Bechtolsheim as Chief Development officer, and David Cheriton as Chief Scientist.

Products
In 2007, Arastra released the first 24-port 10Gb Ethernet switches, the Arista 7100 Series. In 2008 and 2009 Arista introduced the first 48-port fixed configuration 10Gb Ethernet switches and the first triple-speed 10GBASE-T switches. In 2010 Arista introduced the Arista 7500, a modular 10GbE switch with 384 ports of wirespeed L2/L3 packet forwarding - this switch won the Best of Interop Award in the Network Hardware and Overall Best in Show categories.

In 2010 Arista introduced VM Tracer and in 2011 won the Best of VMworld - Best Hardware for Virtualization category with VM Tracer on the Arista 7000 Family.

Arista uses an open Linux based operating system that is the underlying operating system for EOS, Arista's Extensible Operating System. Arista also opens up the operating system to third part development through a site called EOS Central.

Customers
Arista customers include enterprises in industries such as financial services, media, oil and gas, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and gaming. Service providers, including Tier-1 carriers, wholesale providers, and content delivery providers. Arista customers include AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft.