NANOG, I know Arista is typically a switch manufacturer, but with their recently announced Arista 7500R Series and soon to be announced but already shipping 7280R Series Arista is officially getting into the routing game. The fixed 1U 7280R Series looks quite impressive. The 7500R series is your traditional chassis and line card based solution. Both of these products have the ability to hold the full internet routing table, and Arista is working on MPLS features. Both of these new products use the latest Broadcom Jerico chipsets. I would like to know how viable of a product NANOG thinks these Arista routers are compared to service provider grade routers from Cisco, Juniper, ALU, and Brocade? Cost wise, Arista seems to be much, much less per port. For example, the 1U Arista 7280R with 48x10GbE (SFP+) & 6x100GbE QSFP cost about the same as what Juniper sells a MX104 with only four 10G ports for (Under 20K). Can the Arista EOS software combine with their hardware based on the Broadcom Jericho chipset truly compete with the custom chipsets and accompanying software from the big guys?