Elsewhere, Arista Networks, which is rich in Cisco talent, has just announced a new data center operating system that will challenge the incumbents with its speed and simplicity.

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Arista Networks was showing a 10 Gb Ethernet (GE) switch that significantly lowers the cost of high speed Ethernet connectivity, apparently by a factor of about 4 to 1, at the recent NAB show.

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Arista also offers network monitoring software, LANZ, which watches networks and tracks sources of congestion in real-time.

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