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July brought more than just fireworks as we celebrated America’s 249th birthday—it was also a milestone month for Arista. We're excited to announce the acquisition of VeloCloud SD-WAN, a significant step forward as we continue to shape the future of networking across campus, branch, and cloud environments. This move strengthens Arista’s SD-WAN portfolio and reinforces our commitment to innovation and leadership at the enterprise edge.

If you missed our July 10th webinar, “Arista Acquires VeloCloud SD-WAN,” the recording is now available on YouTube. In this session, our experts explore how VeloCloud enhances Arista’s ability to deliver unified, zero-touch networking with integrated security. Learn how VeloCloud’s cloud-delivered SD-WAN is transforming the modern WAN—empowering organizations to build agile, resilient, and secure branch architectures for the future.

🎥 Watch the replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R74pG9OtTts

We welcome your feedback on the newsletter. If you have any ideas on what you want to see, please reach out to fed@aristafederal.com.

Arista Blog¶

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Modernizing Federal Networks with Arista: A New Era of Efficiency and Simplicity¶

Delivering on the Mission of Government Modernization

In an era where federal agencies are under mounting pressure to modernize infrastructure, reduce waste, and improve operational efficiency, Arista Federal is uniquely positioned to deliver the modern operating model government IT leaders are asking for.

Federal agencies share a common goal: to streamline spending and modernize technology in support of their mission. Regardless of political affiliation, reducing inefficiencies and advancing operational capabilities remains a top priority. Arista answers this call by providing a unified platform for simplicity, automation, and performance.

The Modern Operating System for Government

At the core of Arista’s strategy is the Modern Operating System-—centered around two powerful platforms:

Arista EOS® (Extensible Operating System): One OS across all environments—Data Center, Campus, and WAN.
Arista CloudVision®: A single management plane that unifies visibility, automation, and analytics across the network.

Together, these deliver:

✅ Simplified operations with one OS and one management interface

✅ Reduced OpEx through automation and a smaller operational footprint

✅ Faster deployments with zero-touch provisioning and open programmability

✅ Enhanced security via macro-segmentation and network-wide visibility

How Arista Aligns with Federal Priorities

Simplicity & Ease of Use

With one OS and one management system across domains, Arista significantly reduces complexity—allowing agencies to do more with fewer people and less overhead.

Operational Excellence through Automation

Arista’s open standards and industry-leading automation tools empower agencies to streamline processes, reduce human error, and enhance network resiliency—delivering on modernization goals.

Challenges Facing Federal Networks

Arista understands the realities federal agencies and integrators face:

🔍 Deep integration challenges

Expanding user access to sensitive systems
Increase in unmanaged or unsecured endpoints
Reworking of infrastructure without centralized oversight

💰 Aggressive cost-cutting & vendor shake-ups

~$30M in canceled legacy contracts
Delayed or cancelled engagements with major integrators
Growing pressure on incumbents to demonstrate value and cost savings

🚀 Opportunity for agile, specialized vendors

Cloud, automation, and cybersecurity-focused firms gaining traction
FedRAMP deregulation opening doors for new entrants
Demand for solutions that can deliver ROI and security simultaneously

The Road Ahead: Federal IT Outlook

For Networks:

Consolidation onto modern platforms
Increased automation and AI adoption
Greater security scrutiny—especially around endpoint and access controls

For Vendors:

Incumbents must justify contracts and pricing
Mid-tier and niche players can win by aligning with automation, AI, and compliance goals
Unvetted or legacy offerings may be excluded

Arista: Your Trusted Modernization Partner

Arista is helping federal agencies and integrators move forward by:

Delivering a single operating model that reduces risk and complexity
Enabling real-time automation, telemetry, and programmability
Providing flexible options that align with program missions, budget constraints, and cybersecurity standards
Partnering on proof-of-concepts (POCs), evaluations, and test drives to help validate performance and TCO

Now is the Time

As the federal government aggressively modernizes, the window to reimagine your network architecture is now. Arista Federal brings a modern, mission-ready foundation to support AI/ML, cloud-native operations, cybersecurity, and compliance.

Let us show you how Arista is changing the federal network landscape—today and into the future.

Contact Arista Federal 🌐 fed@aristafederal.com

Universal Cloud Network (UCN)¶

By: Michael Harrison, Systems Engineer, US Federal

The Universal Cloud Network (UCN) by Arista Networks is a cutting-edge networking solution designed to simplify and standardize network architectures across diverse use cases. By incorporating common cloud principles, UCN enables organizations to extend their data center networking practices to other environments, delivering streamlined topologies and architectures. This innovative solution addresses the growing complexity of modern networks, offering operational simplicity, enhanced reliability, and advanced security features. Arista's Universal Cloud Network (UCN) presents a transformative solution, leveraging cloud principles to simplify and standardize network architectures across data center, campus, and wide area network environments. Enterprise networks are evolving rapidly in response to increasing demands for agility, scalability, and security. Traditional networking models, often built on siloed architectures and proprietary solutions, are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of modern enterprises.

Enterprise IT landscapes are more distributed than ever, with workloads spanning across on-premises data centers, campus locations, and public or hybrid clouds. This expansion demands a networking architecture that is flexible, consistent, and resilient. Arista's Universal Cloud Network (UCN) addresses these challenges by delivering a unified, software-driven networking platform that extends the operational benefits of cloud networking to all enterprise environments.

Key Features of Arista UCN

1. Open, Standards-Based Design UCN is built on open standards, providing an alternative to proprietary solutions offered by legacy vendors. It emphasizes software-driven control principles, ensuring flexibility and interoperability across various platforms.

2. Spine/Leaf Architecture Arista's UCN employs a spine-and-leaf architecture that integrates both wired and wireless Wi-Fi platforms. This design consolidates campus layers into simpler topologies, reducing costs and improving overall network reliability.

3. Consistent Operational Experience UCN normalizes siloed Places-In-the-Network (PINs) into standardized Places-In-the- Cloud (PICs). This transformation delivers a uniform operational model across different network domains, enhancing efficiency and consistency.

4. Multi-Domain Management Arista CloudVision—a key component of UCN—enables seamless management across data centers, campuses, and wide-area networks. This eliminates the need for disparate network operating models, streamlining operations across multiple domains.

5. Network Data Lake (NetDL) UCN leverages Arista's NetDL architecture to consolidate diverse datasets. This centralized data lake facilitates the application of AI/ML methods for advanced network operations and security insights.

Benefits of Arista UCN

Benefit	Description
Operational Simplicity	Reduces operational expenses by eliminating network silos and providing consistent management tools.
Enhanced Reliability	Simplified, standardized architecture increases uptime and resiliency.
Improved Security	Integrated zero trust security capabilities across all networking domains.
Scalability	Architecture designed for small enterprises to large-scale cloud providers.
Advanced Analytics	AI/ML-powered insights via NetDL and Autonomous Virtual Assist (AVA) for predictive and automated operations.

Arista’s Universal Cloud Network (UCN) provides a next-generation networking approach built on open standards, operational consistency, and cloud principles. By unifying data center, campus, and WAN environments under a single operational model, UCN simplifies network management, enhances reliability, and improves security posture.

By adopting UCN, businesses can achieve enhanced efficiency and resilience while meeting the demands of modern networking challenges.

For Additional Information please see link below: Arista Universal Cloud Network Design Guide https://www.arista.com/en/solutions/design-guides?start=10

Upcoming Events¶

Arista hosts various events throughout the year for you! Members of our team organize these informative events to showcase Arista's ability to not only help improve your network, but to also assist by providing a set of tools to improve your operations! Click on the boxes below to be directed to Arista's website for lists of Webinars and Events.

Arista Network Webinars Series with Carahsoft

Date	Name	Description
July 15	Positioning Arista to the Federal Government	Learn how to effectively align Arista's solutions with federal IT missions. The session will provide key messaging, solution positioning, and success stories tailored to the government sector.
September 9	Arista Campus Solutions	Discover how Arista is extending its reliable, scalable, and secure networking capabilities to campus environments that are perfect for federal agencies with distributed locations.
October 14	vSphere Integration	Join Paul Mancuso, Systems Engineer at Arista Networks, for an in-depth look at how Arista's CloudVision and EOS streamline integration with VMware vSphere.. This session will explore how Arista's solutions enhance automation, visibility, and operational efficiency across virtualized federal data centers. Learn how to simplify network operations and accelerate mission outcomes through seamless vSphere integration.

Register Here

Webinars

We make is easy for you to view products that are of interest, all virtually! Technical memebers of the team showcase outstading explanation of the products. Click below to see our list of Webinars.

Arista Webinars
Events

Join us in person to get a closer look in our list of produts and solution, as well as get the chance to meet members of the team. Click below to see our list of ipcoming Events.

Upcoming Events

Software Updates¶

For new code releases, click here

Softwares	Versions	Release Date
EOS	4.32.6M 4.34.1F 4.32.0.2F 4.33.2.1F	June 20th, 2025 June 16th, 2025 May 20th, 2025 May 14th, 2025
CVP	Portal 2025.1.1 Appliance 7.0.1 Sensor 1.1.0	May 7th, 2025 January 28th, 2025 March 24th, 2025
DMF	8.5.3	June 20th, 2025
WLAN CV-CUE Wireless Manager	13.0.0-67 19.0.0	December 15th, 2022 June 12th, 2025
Arista NDR	5.2.4	August 2024
TerminAttr	1.27.2	April 9th, 2025

Software Advisories¶

Below is a list of advisories that are announced by Arista. To view more details on the specific advisories, please click the links in the middle row.

Name	Advisory Link	Date of Advisory Notice
ACL Policies	Security Advisory 0120	May 27th, 2025
IPSec	Security Advisory 0119	May 27th, 2025
VLAN Isolation	Security Advisory 0118	May 20th, 2025
32bit EOS CCS-750X	Field Notice 0102	June 23rd, 2025
DMF Analytics Node	Field Notice 0101	June 18th, 2025
AP Point Firmware 19.0	Field Notice 0100	May 28th, 2025

For a list of the most current advisories and notices, click Here

Product Updates¶

End of Sale notices are listed below.

Device	Name	End Of Sale Date
Software	End of Software for CloudVision Portal 2023.2 End of Software Support for EOS 4.28 DMF and CCF Deployments on Accton/ Edgecore Switches EOS-4.34 and later no longer supported on select switches	May 27th. 2025 March 14, 2025 January 31st, 2025 January 15th, 2025
Module	7500R2 Series Linecards	December 20th, 2023
Access Points	AP Model W-118	November 20th, 2024
CVP	CVP 2023.2 CVP 2023.2	June 17th, 2025 May 27th, 2025
DMF	DMF 8.3	June 3rd, 2025
Switches	DCS-7020R Series	December 20th, 2024

New Releases of Arista's device are listed below

Device	More Information	Release Date
Arista SWAG	Modern Stacking for Campus	Q3 2025
Arista Multi-Domain Segmentaton Service	Arista MSS	Q3 2024
Arista CV UNO	CloudVision Universal Network Observability	Q1 2024

Feel Free to Reach Out To Us For Your Network Needs¶

We thank you for taking the time to read out newsletter today. Feel free to reach out to your SE or ASE for more information or questions regardsing your network operations. Until next month, have a good one!

Welcome to the July 2025 Edition of the Arista Federal Newsletter!¶