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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.