ANET – Arista Networks
Originally published on April 28, 2022
Background
Arista was founded by industry luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda, and David Cheriton. In 1982, Bechtolsheim co-founded Sun Microsystems, then in 1995, he co-founded Granite Systems with Cheriton, a company that developed gigabit ethernet products, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. For several years the duo occupied executive po…