Cisco Fights Arista Over Network Business With Lawsuits
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Cisco Systems Inc. claims Arista Networks Inc. is using too much of its technology in taking its business, even duplicating copyrighted work right down to inadvertent typos.
Arista, run by former Cisco vice president Jayshree Ullal, has been winning market share in one of Cisco’s most important businesses: the sale of machines called Ethernet switches which are used in data centers by Internet companies, banks and other large companies.