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Re: Arista Routing Solutions
From: Paras Jha <paras () protrafsolutions com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:04:31 -0400
Just wanted to interject, the port density of the Arista switches is quite impressive, especially considering the price point they're at. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Ryan Woolley <rwoolleynanog () gmail com> wrote:
While the QFX in general is similar to Jericho-based platforms, I think the QFX10002 is perhaps not an ideal comparison. At 100G, there is a significant density penalty on that platform, as you can use all 36 ports at 40G, but only 12 ports at 100G. BGP convergence in the newer EOS releases is indeed very, very fast. On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> wrote:Saku, I guess you are right the QFX10002-36Q is probably a better comparison.Butlet's be honest, Juniper is not going to sell a QFX10002-36Q for lessthan$20k like Arista will do for a semi- similar box. Even with a highdiscount(like 90 percent off list), the Juniper QFX10002-36Q at $360k list price comes nowhere close on the price point. Cisco, Juniper, ALU, etc are all not going to see a low cost high density fixed switch because that would cannibalize on their sales on the larger platforms. I really think Arista is kind of unique here as they don't have another routing platform to cannibalize, so they are competitively pricing their platform. So I guess the question becomes, what features are missing that Aristadoesnot currently have? They seems to be adding more and more features, and taking more market share. Here is a list of features supported:https://www.arista.com/en/support/product-documentation/supported-featuresI have not personally used Arista myself, but I like what I am seeing as far as price point, company culture, and repruatation in the marketplace.I know their switching is solid, but I am not sure about their routing. Arista claims to have much, much faster BGP convergence time than all the other vendors. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:On 23 April 2016 at 10:52, Tom Hill <tom () ninjabadger net> wrote:In broad strokes: for your money you're either getting port density,ormore features per port. The only difference here is that there's suddenly more TCAM on the device, and I still don't see the above changing too drastically.Yeah OP is comparing high touch chip (MX104) to low touch chip (Jericho) that is not fair comparison. And cost is what customer is willing to pay, regardless of sticker on the box. No one will pay significant mark-up for another sticker, I've never seen in RFP significant differences in comparable products. Fairer comparison would be QFX10k, instead of MX104. QFX10k is AFAIK only product in this segment which is not using Jericho. If this is competitive advantage or risk, jury is still out, I lean towards competitive advantage, mainly due to its memory design. -- ++ytti
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Current thread:
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions, (continued)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Tom Hill (Apr 23)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Saku Ytti (Apr 23)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Jeff Tantsura (Apr 23)
- RE: Arista Routing Solutions Keith Medcalf (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Saku Ytti (Apr 24)
- RE: Arista Routing Solutions Keith Medcalf (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions lincoln dale (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Saku Ytti (Apr 23)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Colton Conor (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Saku Ytti (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Ryan Woolley (Apr 26)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Paras Jha (Apr 26)
- RE: Arista Routing Solutions Timothy Creswick (Apr 28)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Tom Hill (Apr 23)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Ryan Woolley (Apr 24)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Colton Conor (Apr 25)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Ryan Woolley (Apr 26)
- RE: Arista Routing Solutions Peter Kranz (Apr 27)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions lincoln dale (Apr 27)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Alain Hebert (Apr 28)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Laszlo Hanyecz (Apr 28)
- Re: Arista Routing Solutions Patrick Cole (Apr 28)