Arista Networks Cognitive Campus Solutions

Optimizing the Client to Cloud Experience

Next-Gen Campus Connectivity Must Start by Defining the End-User Experience

Jayshree Ullal

Welcome

Campus networks are undergoing another massive transition in the post-COVID era. As administrators adapt to the shifting boundaries between the office and home around the world, the campus is evolving to distributed workspaces with several cognitive attributes:

  1. Identity must accompany the user and their profiles across their location(s).
  2. Every user may have multiple devices with associated addresses that need to be managed as a unified edge.
  3. One also needs a data-driven model to ingest diverse and multi-vendor data sets across clients to users and devices from and to the cloud.
  4. With the collapse of the perimeter and virulent threats, security and user experience must be redefined from point products to a more holistic zero trust network with segmentation situational awareness and proactive AI-driven threat detection and response.
  5. The network must be designed for integrated segmentation, encryption and intrusion prevention to ensure who talks to whom, prevent access and enforce the appropriate business rules.

The foundation of Arista’s cognitive campus is engineered through state and AI-driven innovation for network analytics and automation. The state-based, network-wide database collects real-time streaming data using standards-based APIs in a predictive manner. Based on AI and machine learning, this foundation offers proactive fault resolution and deep network threat analysis across IoT, users and endpoint devices.

We believe we have built a 21st century cognitive campus architecture that harnesses unified edge capabilities seamlessly across wired and wireless and business-critical workspaces. This data-driven approach is constantly collecting and archiving data from client to campus to cloud.

We hope you enjoy the insight from Gartner as well as a more detailed look at Arista’s answers for transitioning legacy networks to today’s modern campus networks in the post-pandemic era.

Jayshree Ullal
President and CEO Arista Networks

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