Arista unveils Extensions in EOS Software

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

To link the company’s products into cloud services arrangement and flow management solutions, Arista Networks has unveiled software-defined networking (SDN) extensions to its data center switch operating system.

The new release of Arista's EOS software, include APIs for integration with orchestration, provisioning tools and customer applications. Among the APIs are an enhanced OpenStack Quantum plug-in, OpenFlow 1.0 support and enhanced data plane programmability for OpenFlow.

According to Arista Networks, the extensions in EOS are designed to speed up provisioning of cloud services and IT workflows from weeks to seconds. These extensions will enable data plane manipulation of flow tables in Arista switches for programmatic control of network path selection.

The OpenFlow implementation allows customers to implement a heterogeneous IP and OpenFlow switch. OpenFlow allows the Arista switch to be orchestrated through an OpenFlow SDN controller while the switch can also respond to an IP control plane. The new APIs also allow remote systems to connect to Arista EOS via the JSON-based web services API for machine-to-machine communication. With the development of APIs and extensions in EOS, the company's switches to monitoring and cloud integration products from partners NEC, SolarWinds, Splunk, Big Switch, Cloudera, Corvil and ExtraHop Networks.....See More