Arista Networks, Inc., the pioneer of next-generation data center switching for cloud networking, today announced the Arista 7124SX, the fastest switch in the world with standard SFP+ interfaces. With sub-500 nanosecond latency, the Arista 7124SX is ideal for financial trading and ultra low latency applications as a leaf or access top-of-rack 10Gigabit Ethernet switch. Arista also introduced Latency Analyzer (LANZ), a new software capability to monitor and analyze network performance, generate early warning of pending congestion events, and track sources of bottlenecks. In addition, a Solid State Disk (SSD) is available as a factory-option and can be used to store packet data captures, LANZ generated historical data, and take full advantage of the Linux based Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS).

"We already have 7124SX switches running in our production environment and are quite pleased with the state-of-the-art design and financial services targeted feature set" said Jamison Chong, CTO of Montreal based Vigilant Futures. “In our experience, the record low latency and jitter characteristics of the 7124SX put it well ahead of its competition.”