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Founded in 2004, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) is a leading provider of cloud networking solutions for large data center, campus, and routing environments. The company is renowned for its advanced network operating system, Extensible Operating System (EOS), which runs a single image across all its devices. Arista's award-winning platforms range in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 100 gigabits per second, offering unmatched scalability, agility, and resilience. The company's core business revolves around providing high-speed Ethernet switches and software solutions, primarily serving data centers and cloud computing environments.
Arista has shipped over five million cloud networking ports worldwide and remains committed to open standards, being a founding member of the 25/50G consortium. The company counts tech giants like Microsoft and Meta Platforms as its largest customers and derives approximately three-quarters of its sales from North America. Its products are available globally, both directly and through partners.
Recent achievements include the launch of the CloudVision® Universal Network Observability™ (CV UNO™) system, which merges network infrastructure performance data to deliver insights into application and workload performance. The company also expanded its zero trust networking architecture in collaboration with Zscaler, enhancing security and streamlining workflows.
Financially, Arista continues to show strong performance. For the third quarter ending September 30, 2023, the company reported a revenue of $1.509 billion, a 3.5% increase from the second quarter of 2023, and a 28.3% increase from the third quarter of 2022. The GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 62.4%, up from 60.6% in the second quarter of 2023. Arista's robust financial health is further highlighted by a non-GAAP net income of $581.4 million, or $1.83 per diluted share, compared to $391.9 million, or $1.25 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2022.
Additionally, Arista has been recognized as one of America's Greenest Companies by Newsweek and continues to pioneer in the field of AI networking with the recent introduction of the Etherlink™ AI platforms and advancements in AI Data Centers in collaboration with NVIDIA.
Celestial AI has appointed Kelyn Brannon as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective June 3, 2024. Brannon brings over 30 years of experience in corporate finance and investor relations, having previously served as CFO at notable companies including Calix, Arista Networks, and Astra Space. She has successfully led three IPOs on major stock exchanges. Celestial AI's CEO, David Lazovsky, praised Brannon's extensive experience and believes her expertise will be instrumental in guiding the company's financial strategy.
Prior to joining Celestial AI, Brannon served as CFO of Siprocal and Astra Space, where she played a key role in their financial growth and public offerings. Brannon expressed enthusiasm about joining Celestial AI and contributing to its innovative optical interconnect technology in the rapidly expanding AI industry.
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) has launched the Etherlink AI platforms, designed to optimize network performance for AI workloads, including training and inferencing. The portfolio supports AI clusters of thousands to over 100,000 XPUs with efficient one and two-tier network topologies.
The 7060X6 AI Leaf switch and the 7800R4 AI Spine switch employ Broadcom’s latest silicon, with the latter supporting up to 460 Tbps. The 7700R4 AI Distributed Etherlink Switch (DES) supports the largest AI clusters with advanced traffic management.
All switches adhere to emerging Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) standards, offering future performance benefits. The Arista EOS Smart AI Suite enhances AI network deployment, security, and performance analysis.
The 7060X6 is available now, while the 7800R4 AI and 7700R4 DES will be available in the second half of 2024.
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to demonstrate AI Data Centers that align compute and network domains as a single managed AI entity. This initiative aims to build optimal generative AI networks with reduced job completion times by allowing customers to configure, manage, and monitor AI clusters uniformly across networks, NICs, and servers.
An Arista EOS-based agent enables seamless communication and coordination between AI networking and compute infrastructure, hosted on NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC or servers. This new technology ensures end-to-end network configuration and QoS consistency, optimizing AI clusters as a single solution.
The demonstration highlights the ability to manage AI clusters holistically, improving job completion times and addressing performance degradation issues. The AI Agent technology will be showcased at Arista’s IPO 10th anniversary event on June 5, with customer trials expected in the second half of 2024.
Arista Networks, Inc. reported solid first-quarter financial results, with revenue reaching $1.571 billion, a 16.3% increase from Q1 2023. The GAAP net income was $637.7 million, or $1.99 per diluted share, showcasing a significant growth from the previous year. The company also authorized a $1.2 billion stock repurchase program, reflecting confidence in its financial position.
Dispersive, a leading provider of secure networking solutions, appointed cybersecurity expert Rahul Kashyap to its board of directors. Kashyap brings vast experience and expertise to enhance Dispersive's position in cybersecurity. The company offers innovative networking solutions for secure digital connections, ensuring enhanced security, reliability, and performance.
Arista Networks announced the launch of its Arista MSS offering, a multi-domain segmentation service that aims to create a robust zero trust network without the need for endpoint software agents or proprietary network protocols. This solution provides effective microperimeters to restrict lateral movement in networks, reducing the impact of security breaches. The MSS solution offers standards-based network microsegmentation that is network-agnostic and endpoint-independent, avoiding operational complexity and cost challenges faced by existing solutions. Arista MSS combines three key capabilities to enable organizations to build microperimeters around each digital asset they seek to protect, offering stateless wire-speed enforcement in the network, redirection to stateful firewalls, and CloudVision for microperimeter management.
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