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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

Arista NetworksJayshree UllalA 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
Only
Purpose Built OS
(Arista)
Custom OS
(Cisco, Juniper)
Product Diversity Low Very High in Data Center and Cloud Space Broad for Campus, Enterprise and Carrier Space
Approx. ASP/Port
for 10GbE Leaf
 

10/100/40 DC
Market Potential
Sources: Many

Sub $50 + Cost of Box
hardware + integration
development = $150 - $200 port

($100M Market)

∼$200 - $300/port

 

($3-$5B Market)

$400 - $1,000

 

($9B Market)

Control Plane - SW Debian Linux or Other OS Linux with De-coupled Processes using SysDB, CLI, SNMP & Open APIs Monolithic 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 Staff

Targeted for Experimental/Lab Networks and Greenfield Data Centers

Not suited for Mission-Critical Workloads

Focused Products

Targeted 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 Techs

Targeted for Mainstream Enterprise, Telco Data Centers

Suited for Mission-Critical Workloads in Enterprise and Telco Space


Source: Arista Networks

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