Following Arista

I have following arista for last year and jotting down their product scope and my understanding for future references.

• Arista a spun out from cisco-Ex, have good presence in the market and heard quite a bit times often
• Arista EOS is equivalent or better than Cisco IOS / Nx-OS
• I have personally not any experienced the usage difference, but i am a Nx-OS guy
• Will evaluate and report - when i get a chance
• Artista moved from switch to relevant areas in market space similar and aligning to their business
• Network TAP/ SPAN or Network Packet Brokering market aka network visibility
• Tie up with big data companies to produce data feeds to analytic software (http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/eos/network-tracers)
• Arista Introduces Next Generation 7050X Products,Provides Telemetry and Cloud Network Leaf
• http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/news/pressrelease/630-pr-20131002-01