Does anyone have a good explanation for why Azure continues to purchase Arista switches in particular (or any branded switches for that matter)? Seems logical they would follow similar practice at AWS and try to whitebox as much as possible and layer on your own internally developed OS (looks like they're doing that with Sonic?). But maybe I'm missing something and Arista has the secret sauce (more so than Cisco or Juniper) that can't just be developed internally. I assume there's less performance going at it alone but I'm sure the cost savings would offset that. Anyway, appreciate the help thinking through this!
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