Arista whips out first crop of edgy switches, Wi-Fi 6 gear

Switch-making Cisco nemesis Arista Networks has unveiled its first campus leaf switches and first Wi-Fi 6 access points, aimed at offices at the edge of the network. The company has also extended the Extensible Operating System (EOS) and CloudVision software to support the new kit. The products round out its “cognitive campus …

[Anonymous Coward]

Too expensive for campus.

Too bad their pricing isn't more competitive on these switches to finally attack the other vendors for a holistic, single-vendor lan solution with Arista. Unless they're Arista snobs, or hate every other vendor already, I can't imagine these selling much. I've already pitched these to an Arista customer, and they laughed at the cost, even with steep discounts, just going on to buy cheaper Junipers, regardless of no one there wanting to learn junos.

[Reg Reader 1]

Re: Too expensive for campus.

My experience with learning Junos was that it was easier to learn than Cisco iOS. Does iOS now have the ability to create temporary configuration when you change configuration that shows you the results of your intended changes? In Junos you dump in your intended changes type "show | compare" and you see what's changing in that box before any changes are made. That's saved my bacon more than once. Years ago when I worked in Cisco equipment that feature seems to have been missing.

[joelja]

latency

> Wi-Fi 6 promises lower latency – as low as 10 ms;

I hopeful that's 10us (micro-seconds) not si milliseconds, the later would be quite a bit slower then 802.11ac is now.

a superficial reading of published materials suggests 802.11ac may actually have a lower guard interval and lower symbol time while transmiting but has fewer bits per symbol.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1769-wi-fi-6-explained/

[Anonymous Coward]

Campus switches are a strict commodity

If your company thinks or believes that it needs a level of complexity at the campus/edge space, you need to fire your networking engineers and find some that don't see networking as a rigid and mysterious object that requires paying homage to the networking gods.