Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS
Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it. Tom’s …
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SwitchingEthernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOSTony Mattke · 2026.04.30 · 6 min read Networking Field Day 40 Part 5 of 5 1 Networking Field Day 40 – Back at it again2 Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era3 Lightyear at NFD40: Can Software Fix the Telecom Lifecycle?4 One Throat to Choke, or Any Silicon You Want: Cisco at NFD405 Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOSHalfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it. Tom’s answer was honest: it’s really just the polish.
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