Cisco Is Hoping To Score A Big Win Against Its Hated Rival Arista

On Wednesday, a judge of the International Trade Commission issued its first decision on whether Arista Networks Cisco violated patents, and people inside the Cisco eagerly hope things will move on.
If the judge rules in favor of Cisco, Cisco hopes the judge will then say Arista can not send its network switching products to the United States from its production abroad until the technology in question is removed.
A ban of this kind could be imposed in a couple of months.

As mentioned above, the legal battle between Cisco and Arista Arista is downright personal because it was founded largely by ex-Cisco people.

That's a lot of "if"

While none of this is how Cisco, Cisco has more prosecutions against hated rival in the works.

 

He has all another round with ITU involving another series of patents. ITU This judge must rule on April 26.
Beyond the ITU, Cisco has also filed a complaint for patent violation before the US District Court for the Northern District of California. This case was put on hold pending the outcome of the case with ITU, Cisco said.
Cisco has chosen to go to the ITU, in addition to the Federal Court because the ITU tend to work faster, Cisco said attorney Mark Chandler.
Meanwhile, Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal has been minimized by the effects of all this litigation.

In an earnings call in November Ullal he told Wall Street analysts that Arista is preparing for the worst and that none of this is scaring customers away.
"The trial has not had a significant negative impact on our sales momentum and customer revenue," he said.

Arista has continued to grow and analysts expect to report 38% increase in quarterly earnings when it reports its fourth quarter on February 18

 Preparing for the worst

Lawyer Marc Taxay Arista also told analysts on this call in November Arista is already working on ways to remove the disputed technology.

"We have actually developed more or less degree, design arounds for each certificate in the event of an unfavorable outcome Some have already been implemented;. Others are being implemented," said Taxay.
Arista was founded by two famous billionaires Valley, Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton, and is run by the former star of Cisco engineer Ullal, with former Cisco employees around the company.
Arista has already admitted that its products Cisco imitated by design, so someone trained to use Cisco networking products could easily learn from Arista. (It takes years of training to master the Cisco networking products.)

Cisco All this blood is reduced.

And then Arista became public in mid-2015 and found a healthy profit company grow at a rapid pace. A few months after its IPO, Cisco filed their suits.