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Partner Quotes

Rack-Scale Architectures for Scale-Up and Scale-Out AI Fabrics

“The next generation of AI data centers will depend on open approaches that give customers greater choice across compute and networking. Arm and Arista are working to advance this vision, enabling more flexible and efficient systems for demanding AI workloads.”

— Mohamed Awad, Executive Vice President, Cloud AI, Arm

“By extending our deep partnership with Arista to open rack-scale architectures that combine Arista’s switching platforms with our AMD Pensando Vulcano 800 AI NICs, we are delivering breakthrough solutions such as multi-plane topologies and Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) resiliency to power the next generation of hyperscale AI clusters.”

— Yousaf Khan, Corporate Vice President, Networking Technology Solutions Group, AMD

“Extending open Ethernet into scale-up domains is essential for modern AI fabrics. Through our ESUN collaboration with Arista, we are bringing standards-based, low-latency scale-up connectivity to market, eliminating proprietary compute silos without vendor lock-in.”

— Hasan Siraj, VP, Product Management, Broadcom

“Delivering interactive AI at scale is a complex tech challenge requiring collaboration across the ecosystem. We are excited to partner with Arista to build an open-standards ESUN rack-scale system connecting 128 next-gen Raptor XPUs with Arista's high-speed switching — giving customers an ultra-low-latency, cost-effective inference solution for applications demanding instant interactivity.”

— Sid Sheth, Founder and CEO, d-Matrix

“Meta is pleased to collaborate with Arista on rack-scale networking solutions for our 102.4T scale-out platforms. Establishing a common, open scale-out networking layer is vital to interconnecting heterogeneous compute platforms at hyperscale efficiency.”

— Gaya Nagarajan, VP of Engineering, Meta

“We are extending our partnership with Arista to design a high-performance, high-bandwidth scale-up solution for our Maia AI accelerators. Arista brings deep expertise in AI networking, and the innovative co-engineered compute and network rack-scale solution delivers end-to-end performance and offers flexibility for connectivity scenarios.”

— Reynold D’Sa, Corporate Vice President, Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering at Microsoft

“Rapidly evolving AI workloads and increasing interconnect requirements demand scalable, standardized solutions like Ethernet fabrics. Arista’s industry-leading switches and software support both multi-protocol scale-up and Ethernet scale-out. We are pleased to see Arista deliver advanced networking solutions that ensure seamless interoperability and maximum performance across large-scale accelerator deployments”

— Tony Pialis, EVP and GM, Data Center, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.