February 18, 2020

Arista's Big Switch buy adds customers, engineers, network software

Arista Networks has acquired data center networking company Big Switch Networks. Arista bought the company for its 300 customers, engineering team and software for managing switching fabrics.


Arista announced the acquisition this week, along with its earnings results. The company reported that revenues fell 7.2% year-over-year in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. The drop was due to reduced spending by cloud and communication service providers, which are the company's most lucrative customer segments.

From a product perspective, Arista was particularly interested in Big Switch's Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) and its Big Cloud Fabric (BCF), Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal said in a conference call with Wall Street investors. BMF is a network packet broker for BCF, which is software for managing physical switches as a single fabric. Switch makers that support BCF include Accton Technology, Quanta, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell EMC.

Arista expects BMF to be a "perfect complement" to Data Analyzer (DANZ), the network packet broker within the company’s EOS network operating system. BMF will bring more extensive packet-based analysis to DANZ, Ullal said.

"BMF is just icing on the cake," she said. Arista planned to continue supporting BMF and BCF as separate products.

Arista plans to offer BCF as a management tool for converged infrastructure. The latter is a data center architecture that packages compute, networking, servers, storage and virtualization tools in a prequalified turnkey appliance. Ullal expects partner Dell to use BCF within its infrastructure bundles.

Big Switch's 300 customers included 100 that were also Arista customers, Ullal said. Arista hired 75 Big Switch employees, the majority of whom were engineers.
Source: Techtarget.com

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