
PIER Group + Arista Networks
PIER Group and Arista Networks partner to deliver high-performance, cloud-driven networking solutions for higher education and research environments.
PIER Group and Arista Networks work together to help institutions design, deploy, and support modern campus and data center networks. By combining Arista’s cloud networking platforms with PIER Group’s expertise in higher education infrastructure, institutions can build scalable, secure, and high-performance environments that support research, teaching, and innovation.
Modern campus networks must support increasing demands for performance, scalability, and visibility. PIER Group and Arista Networks deliver software-driven networking solutions that simplify operations, enhance network performance, and provide the flexibility needed for evolving higher education environments.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks is a leader in cloud networking, delivering data-driven, client-to-cloud solutions for campus, data center, and routing environments. Their platforms are designed to provide high availability, automation, and deep visibility, enabling organizations to manage complex networks with greater efficiency and control.
Arista Networks Product Offerings
Cognitive Campus
Simplifies policy management and provisioning of wired and wireless networks with game changing configuration, monitoring, reporting, & troubleshooting capabilities to reduce the time & effort involved in triaging issues.
Delivers an ultra fast and reliable wireless networking experience with zero touch deployment, remote management, monitoring and troubleshooting. Arista offers a wide range of Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 6 access points for indoor or outdoor deployments. Built-in multifunction radios provide unique capabilities allowing administrators to provide advanced security, proactively monitor network behaviors, perform hitless upgrades and optimize network performance with client simulation testing.
From compact and quiet form factors for small deployments with lower bandwidth needs up to high-end, high port density switches providing redundancy and scale. Arista switches provide data and power to network devices such as VoIP phones, Cameras, Wi-Fi access points, and automated systems (heating, cooling etc).
Uses modern design principles, cloud native microservices architecture, and Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) technologies to significantly simplify the administrative tasks of onboarding corporate, BYOD and IoT devices securely. Powerful encryption enhances your customer’s network security with the benefit of providing a seamless user experience.
Network Visibility and Security
Provides network visibility that supports rapid detection and analysis of network performance and security anomalies. DMF is a next-generation network packet broker (NPB) architected for pervasive, organization-wide visibility and security.
Delivers continuous diagnostics for the entire enterprise threat landscape. NDR processes countless points of data, senses abnormalities and threats, and reacts if necessary in a matter of seconds.
CLOUD NETWORKING PORTFOLIO
EOS: THE PLATFORM FOR SOFTWARE DRIVEN CLOUD NETWORKING
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PIER Group and Arista Networks are delivering scalable, high-performance networking solutions that power innovation in research, education, and beyond.