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

Arista Unveils Ethernet Architecture for AI Racks With 1,024 XPUs

The Etherlink SU-144 architecture connects up to 144 accelerators in a single-hop domain and up to 1,024 XPUs through cross-rack topologies.

Arista takes Ethernet into the rack, and the network becomes the backplane

Since its founding in 2004, it’s arguable that no network vendor has made better switches than Arista Networks Inc. That was true then and remains true, as its prowess in this area helped it ride the cloud boom and the artificial intelligence wave. That model is changing as AI scales. Today, ahead of next week’s […]

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

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), a leader in AI fabric networking, today announced its open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio to power high-density scale-up and scale-out AI infrastructure. Engineered in partnership with leading compute technology companies such as AMD, Arm, Broadcom, d-Matrix, Meta, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, see quotes here, this effort leverages the Ethernet for Scale-up Networks (ESUN) initiative…

Arista steps up its Ethernet challenge to Nvidia’s AI scale-up networking fabric

Arista sees Ethernet as the scale-up networking fabric of choice for AI and continues to build up its alternative to proprietary interconnects such as Nvidia’s NVLink technology. This week, Arista rolled out new Ethernet reference architectures as well as a raft of integration partnerships with industry players—including AMD, Arm, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, and Qualcomm—aimed at helping large enterprises and hyperscale customers make Ethernet-ba…