Arista Networks
Arista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) solutions for largedatacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Arista's products include an array of 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet low-latency cut-through switches, including the 7124SX, which remained the fastest switch using SFP+ optics through September 2012, with its sub-500ns latency, as well as the 7500 series, Arista’s award-winning[5] modular 10G/40G/100Gbit/s switch. Arista's own Linux-based network operating system, EOS (Extensible OS), runs on all Arista products.
I had little to no experience in the area of network switches and cloud computing before 2010. Several years earlier my brother and his business partner established the company in Silicon Valley. As this start-up grew and looked beyond the US, Japan was one of the markets to establish a branch operation. My brother asked me if I would be willing to act as the representative of the company in the local market.
The "heavy lifting" was the legal set up of the company in Japan and the initial financial structuring. We started with one employee and an accountant (plus me). Like a proud parent watching their child grow independent, I was pleased to see the Japan operations reaching new heights of success each quarter. It is now a public company.
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