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Price per 10GbE port comparison: Arista, Cisco, Juniper vs. software stack only
"The market is shifting towards software-defined, simpler, scalable and low-latency cloud designs."
Tue, 7/16/13 - 2:33pm View comments
blog penned earlier this month by Arista Networks CEO, Jayshree Ullal , provided the below interesting price per 10GbE port comparison between software stack only vs. Arista, Cisco and Juniper.
Additionally, Jayshree made the this point about the market for modern networking software:
"The market is shifting towards software-defined, simpler, scalable and low-latency cloud designs."
Price per 10GbE port comparison: Arista, Cisco, Juniper vs. software stack only
Software Stack Purpose Built OS Custom OS
Product Diversity Low Very High in Data Center and Cloud Space Broad for Campus, Enterprise and Carrier Space
Approx. ASP/Port10/100/40 DC
Sub $50 + Cost of Box($100M Market)
∼$200 - $300/port
($3-$5B Market)
$400 - $1,000
($9B Market)
Control Plane - SW Debian Linux or Other OSLinux with De-coupled Processes using SysDB, CLI, SNMP & Open APIsMonolithic Systems Requiring Direct Inter-process Communication
Feature Matrix Low High in Data Center and Cloud Space Broad with focus on Enterprise and Carrier Space
Feature Velocity Customized Quarterly Yearly
Core Value Proposition Requires Developers on StaffTargeted for Experimental/Lab Networks and Greenfield Data Centers
Not suited for Mission-Critical Workloads
Focused ProductsTargeted at Financials, Web 2.0, Cloud Data Centers and Cloud Providers
Well suited for Mission-Critical Data Center Workloads
Worldwide Sales/Product Support; 3rd Party Certified TechsTargeted for Mainstream Enterprise, Telco Data Centers
Suited for Mission-Critical Workloads in Enterprise and Telco Space
Source: Arista Networks
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