Key Points:
• Arista Networks is introducing new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers manage and group switches more easily.
• The new features, Switch Aggregation Group (SWAG) and CloudVision Leaf Spine Stack (LSS) Management, allow customers to group and manage individual switches via a single IP address and manage the logical switch stack within a networking closet or across the campus.
• Arista’s CloudVision management package now supports the stacked switches, enabling customers to provision, upgrade, configure, gather telemetry information, and segment all switches in a campus network once, simplifying operations.
Arista Networks is expanding its campus networking portfolio with new features to make it easier for enterprise customers to manage and group switches. The new features, Switch Aggregation Group (SWAG) and CloudVision Leaf Spine Stack (LSS) Management, will help customers manage individual switches via a single IP address and group them in a logical switch stack within a networking closet or across the campus.
SWAG, which will be available in the second quarter of 2025, allows customers to group up to 48 switches under a single logical IP address cluster. This simplifies network management, conserves IP addresses, and reduces license costs. "SWAG eases the ability to operate the network by allowing operators to manage a group of switches as a single entity in their management platform," said Sriram Venkiteswaran, director of product management at Arista.
LSS Management, on the other hand, enables a single and logical management plane to manage the stack without requiring the switches to be physically stacked. This allows customers to perform network operations on a logical stack of switches in a standards-based, modern, leaf-spine architecture rather than being limited to legacy ring or chain topologies.
Many enterprises are still using command-line interfaces (CLI) for network management, which can be tedious and time-consuming. LSS simplifies operations by enabling customers to provision, upgrade, configure, gather telemetry information, and segment all switches in a campus network once.
Arista is not the first to introduce stacking technology, as major competitors like Cisco, Juniper, HPE Aruba, and Dell have been offering it for years. However, Arista is filling a gap in its campus networking portfolio and aims to provide a more modern approach to switch management.
"Arista’s modern software is designed with key availability and segmentation techniques that separate management and control planes, avoiding the pitfalls of proprietary stacking," said Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista. "This simplified stacking approach improves operations, minimizes downtime, and reduces TCO – an advancement that has been a long time coming." With these new features, Arista is poised to make it easier for enterprises to manage and group switches, simplify operations, and reduce costs.
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