About Arista Networks & WWT

WWT and Arista partner together to provide not only reliable large-scale data center and cloud networking, but also everything you need to build a secure corporate network. Arista's Cognitive Campus offers a complete portfolio of innovative solutions, including advanced PoE switches, access points, and network access control. All components are managed through a cloud-based dashboard designed not just to connect but to intelligently adapt to evolving network demands.

The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand

This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
Blog
•Nov 3, 2024

WWT and Partners Deliver Next-Generation Telco Cloud for Virgin Media O2

Learn how WWT, working with Arista and VMware, was able to test, validate and deploy a next-generation Telco Cloud for Virgin Media O2 as part of its ongoing plans to modernize its 5G UK Network.
Case Study

Introduction to Arista's AI/ML GPU Networking Solution

AI workloads require significant data and computational power, with billions of parameters and complex matrix operations. Inter-network communication accounts for a significant portion of job completion time. Traditional network architectures are insufficient for large-scale AI training, necessitating investments in new network designs. Arista Networks offers high-bandwidth, low-latency and scalable connectivity for GPU servers, with features like Data Center Quantized Congestion Notification and intelligent load balancing. Arista's AI Leafs and Spines provide high-density and high-performance switches for AI networking. Different network designs are recommended based on the size of the AI application. A dedicated storage network is recommended to handle the large datasets used in AI training. Arista's Cloud Vision Portal and AI Analyzer tools provide automated provisioning and deep flow analysis. Arista's IP/Ethernet switches are well-suited for AI/ML workloads, offering energy-efficient interconnects and simplified network management.
Article
•Jun 25, 2024

Manage 1000+ Multi-Vendor Fabric Switches From a Single Interface

Apstra is a multi-vendor orchestration tool built for the enterprise and our changing digital environment.
Article
•May 19, 2022

Wi-Fi 7 OEM Overview

In this blog post, we dive into the OEM vendors with Wi-Fi 7 product offerings as of January 2025.
Blog
•Jan 30, 2025

Solution Focus Areas

WWT and Arista deliver a comprehensive portfolio of solution focus areas designed to address modern networking challenges across campus, data center, security, and AI environments. By combining advanced cloud networking, integrated security, and AI-optimized architectures, they enable organizations to improve performance, simplify operations, and scale with evolving business demands. Together, these capabilities help customers build resilient, high-performing networks that support everything from distributed workforces to next-generation AI workloads.

Cognitive Campus & SD-Branch

In today's geographically dispersed working environment, businesses today are facing challenges that they never had to face before... managing a dispersed workforce, keeping up with evolving technologies, and making their network seamless, easy to use, and hacker-proof. WWT and Arista address these challenges with platforms that deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. Now, with SD-Branch, they bring it all together:

  • Centralized management
  • Wireless networking
  • Campus PoE+ switches
  • Cloud-based network access control (NAC)
  • Secure SD-WAN

Data Center & Routing

WWT and Arista deliver the most efficient, reliable and high-performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G platforms delivered with an extensible operating system. Arista EOS® is built on an open, programmable, and resilient state-sharing architecture that delivers maximum system uptime, reduces CAPEX and OPEX by simplifying IT operations and enables business agility. 

Network Visibility and Security

In addition to networking for data center, campus and routing environments, WWT and Arista have impressive security solutions built natively into those networking solutions. These solutions help your customers accelerate their journey toward optimal zero trust maturity.

  • Network Detection and Response (NDR)
  • Arista Multi-Domain Segmentation Service (MSS®)
  • Network Access Control
  • Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (WIPS)

AI Networking Centers

WWT and Arista know that exponential growth in AI applications requires standardized transports to build power efficient interconnects and overcome the scaling limitations and administrative complexities of existing approaches. Building an IP/Ethernet architecture with high-performance Arista switches maximizes the performance of the application while at the same time optimizing network operations. With extensive experience in large scale and high-performance networking, WWT and Arista provide the best IP/Ethernet based solution for AI/ML workloads built on a range of AI Accelerator and Storage systems.

Arista in the ATC

Explore Arista in the WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC) with interactive hands-on labs, learning paths, and more. Gain exclusive insights into Arista's cutting edge techology solutions today. 

Arista VXLAN EVPN Deployment with CloudVision Studios

Arista CloudVision provides a centralized, model-driven platform for deploying, managing, and extending VXLAN EVPN fabrics using Studios. In this hands-on lab, you will use CloudVision to build and operate a VXLAN EVPN leaf-spine fabric across multiple sites while maintaining consistent policies, visibility, and control. The lab begins with onboarding, switches into CloudVision, and assigns roles using Studios. You will then configure MLAG for high availability, set up VXLAN EVPN underlay and overlay parameters, and map VLANs to VNIs to enable multi-tenant segmentation and workload connectivity. Next, you will implement inter-VRF routing and route leaking using EVPN and BGP constructs. Finally, the lab extends the design into a VXLAN EVPN Multi-Site architecture, integrating multiple fabrics under a unified control and policy framework. This lab demonstrates how CloudVision and Studios simplify the deployment, operation, and lifecycle management of complex VXLAN EVPN fabrics, providing centralized visibility, consistent configuration, and scalable multi-site operations.
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Arista Universal Cloud

There are several universal architectures in the Arista design portfolio. The Enterprise Universal Cloud Network can be used in the data center and in the Cognitive Campus, and the Enterprise Anycloud Network expands beyond the data center. All of these designs deliver the Arista Unified AnyCloud Architecture offering unified orchestration, management and telemetry with CloudVision. Arista's guiding principles are Universal(Common architectures from small to huge), Simple(a single operating system for all platforms and hardware), Open(standards-based features and functions), Programable(Easy to use APIs and automation), and Visible(Full state Telemetry and flow information) The key to these guiding design principles is the use of the Arista EOS architecture for its hardware and software-based devices. EOS is based on a Linux kernel, standard and fully open. EOS uses agent processes, that use a Publish/Subscribe model to populate the NetDB on each device which contains all device states. NetDB can then be used by Aristas CloudVision products to offer full-state telemetry and flow information for the entire Universal Architecture. Because Arista is using a single binary for all hardware and software-based devices Arista can implement hardware abstraction. Unlike some other manufacturers, Arista uses the latest Merchant Silicon and when coupled with the standard open EOS kernel allows very fast development cycles, fewer bugs, and faster adoption by customers since it is the same EOS.
Learning Path

Arista CloudVision Studios: VXLAN EVPN Fabric Deployment

This learning path introduces you to deploying and operating data center fabrics using Arista CloudVision Portal as your centralized orchestration and automation platform. You'll onboard Arista switches into CloudVision, reconcile their configuration with configlets, and build a VXLAN EVPN fabric using MLAG, VRFs, and Layer 2/Layer 3 networks for tenant segmentation. You'll then configure inter-VRF route leaking, and conclude by integrating multiple fabrics in a scalable, multi-domain architecture, all while leveraging CloudVision for centralized visibility and streamlined operations.
Learning Path

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