Arista for Higher Education and Research
Arista offers comprehensive solutions for higher education and research environments.
Cognitive Campus and Zero Trust Network Security technologies optimise campus
connectivity whilst safeguarding sensitive data. Arista’s high-performance and scalable
networking architecture ensures organisations can harness the power of advancing
technologies, such as AI, to drive innovation. Importantly, our modern, multi-domain
management platform simplifies complex IT operations and helps streamline workflows,
contributing to lower operational costs and reducing total cost of ownership.
Arista for Reliable and Secure Campus Infrastructures
Explore our pioneering role in modern networking and campus technologies. As a global leader in wired and wireless solutions for data centers, both private and cloud-based, Arista brings unparalleled expertise. Our campus offerings empower higher education institutions with the same advanced technologies deployed by industry giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and eBay, ensuring superior connectivity and performance.
Higher Education Campus Customer Success Stories
“Arista’s EVPN/VXLAN design is an ‘all-in-one’ solution that effectively addresses the university’s networking requirements. Its implementation, particularly on Arista equipment, has proven to meet all specification points, including offering load balancing mechanisms on backbone links.”
Read how a successful migration to a new Arista EVPN/VXLAN fabric named ‘Osiris 4’, has delivered 100G connectivity, significant cost, reliability and performance benefits, and future-proofed the network.
Systems and Network Engineer, University of Strasbourg
“Arista EOS uniform operating system simplifies provisioning by using a single binary image for both access and data centre switches, ensuring streamlined operations and maintenance.”
Read how FernUniversität in Hagen upgraded to a spine and leaf architecture with Arista for high performance, low latency, and the ability to scale, together with flexible and powerful options for network automation.
Network Engineer, FernUniversität in Hagen
“The data centre is at the heart of so many things we need to do to deliver the next generation of educational tools and the success of this project is part of the commitment we hold to our students to make sure that IT is there to help them succeed”
To support its continual investment in technology, in 2014, UniSC invested in a dedicated data centre that today supports hundreds of systems vital to its academic, teaching and research activities. Although fit for purpose at the time, with increased use of video, interactive content, and simulation - plus an increased student body - the data centre was starting to experience hardware and software issues along with occasional small outages.
Network Systems Team Lead, UniSC
“Arista's advanced services really set the bar for how a customer-vendor relationship should appear.”
Serving entities such as fire departments, police departments, municipalities, and educational institutes, CEN is relied upon by their customers to provide critical services. CEN looked to Arista to provide high-speed aggregation and Internet service delivery for their network, all with real-time state streaming telemetry and next-gen provisioning through CloudVision®.
Senior Network Engineer, CEN
“We have real-time visibility of everything that is happening in the network and we are able to change configurations on the spot”
IE University was able to install and test an extensive and complex network, spanning 32 floors and delivering Wi-Fi to 7,000 students and staff, working within an incredibly short deadline of six weeks, before the building opened to students and staff. As part of the process, the university performed a number of proof-of- concept tests which included stress testing the system under high loads.
Chief Information Officer, IE University
Networking for AI and AI for Networking
The AI era promises to innovate research and information sharing for higher education and research institutions. Modern AI applications need high-bandwidth, lossless, low-latency, scalable, multi-tenant networks that interconnect hundreds and thousands of GPUs at high speed from 100Gbps to 800Gbps and beyond.
Key Arista advantages in AI Networking include:
- Arista Etherlink™
- Network Platforms
- Network Operating Software
- Open Ecosystem
- Interoperable
- Visibility and Telemetry
- Total Cost of Ownership
Arista Ethernet-based AI Networking
The computational demands of AI applications are significant and push the limits of our digital infrastructure. To optimise AI workloads and reduce Job-Completion Time (JCT), we not only need more powerful CPUs, GPUs and TPUs but also smarter, faster networks.
As a steering member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), Arista is proud to be at the forefront of building the best networking infrastructure for resilient AI clusters, leveraging its industry-leading, standards-based Extensible Operating System (EOS®) software stack and Arista Etherlink™ platforms to facilitate the next technological evolution.
Words: Christophe Compain, Arista Networks
Research Customer Success Stories
CEA’s Military Applications Division now has a high-performance network with 400G capability which is
800G ready, that can keep pace with the next generation of computing center architecture.
Read why CEA’s Military Applications Division selected Arista Networks as the core of its new 400Gb/s Ethernet based Leaf and Spine network architecture, delivering enhanced throughput between compute partitions and central storage systems, improved latency, better quality and services, and workload flexibility.
“Interface profiles that can apply the same settings to multiple ports, and other such user-friendly features, reduce the tediousness of daily operation and management.”
In April 2023, OIST fully adopted Arista’s solutions to configure the network used to launch operations of its Lab 5 research facility. Concurrently, during the construction of the Lab 5 research facility, OIST conducted a comprehensive review of the network design for the entire campus. With a strong emphasis on redundancy and failure resistance, the new ring network connecting each research area is comprised of two layers, in a multi-vendor environment. OIST specifically selected Arista Networks to provide the products to configure the ring layer that supports the core OIST network.
Network Engineer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
The R-CCS has been expanding its adoption of Arista Networks products due to its fantastic experience with the high product cost performance as well as the ease of operation and management.
A connection to the Science Information NETwork SINET6 enables universities and research institutions to use Fugaku over the internet, whether in Japan or overseas. Upon its initial launch for full joint use in March 2021, Fugaku connected to the SINET5 network using an exclusive 100 Gbps line. As of April 2022, the system has been using three 400 Gbps lines between the Kobe Data Center and Osaka Data Center to realize a high capacity connection with a total 1.2 Tbps bandwidth. The R-CCS adopted the Arista Networks 7280R3 Series switches to handle this connection.
Unit Leader of the Advanced Operation Technologies , RIKEN Center for Computational Science
High performance networks for best-in-class research
The New Era Needs a New Network
At Arista, we are proud to be at the forefront of building the absolute best networking infrastructure for the largest AI clusters in the world and delivering high fidelity business outcomes with AI/ML-assisted AVA. Generative AI promises to offer the potential to change our lives, from rapid detection of cancer and Alzheimer’s disease to reducing incidents of fraud in financial services and better detection of illegal drug transportation that threatens public safety. As Arista celebrates the early milestones of Ethernet-based AI networking, it is gratifying to witness so many real-world use cases and possibilities for improving humanity.
Arista Networks and Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC)
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium brings together companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability and to build a complete Ethernet based communication stack architecture, that best matches the rapidly evolving AI/HPC workloads at scale and provides for best-in-class functionality, performance, interoperability and TCO as well as developer and end-user friendliness.