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Arista company history timeline

2004

According to the book Cloud Networking Transformation: The Making of Arista, Google (today a part of Alphabet (GOOG -0.13%) (GOOGL -0.14%)) put out a request for information in 2004.

2008

Arista was founded by industry luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and David Cheriton, launched in 2008 and is led by CEO Jayshree Ullal.

In 2008, the first product was created, and the business was ready to go to market.

2010

Arista launched its first switch product in 2010, and that device offered six times the throughput of anything else on the market then.

2018

The acquisition of Mojo Networks in 2018 provides the company with Wi-Fi solutions for campus and enterprise networks, while Metamako (also in 2018) augments Arista's low-latency platforms.

2019

In the third quarter of 2019, only about 20% of sales came from outside of the Americas.

2020

Arista was recognized as a leader with the top score in current offering and strategy categories in The Forrester Wave™: Open, Programmable Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020.

To bolster its deep and real-time monitoring and visibility capabilities, Arista acquired Big Switch Networks earlier in 2020.

In fact, Jayshree Ullal said a mid-single-digit top-line growth figure for 2020 is not out of the question.

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Founded
1996
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Headquarters
Fremont, CA
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Founders
Andreas B. Bechtolsheim Ph.d,Kenneth Duda
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