Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) unveiled major enhancements to its Cognitive Campus portfolio, introducing Arista VESPA, an architecture designed to support massive-scale Wi-Fi mobility with roaming domains exceeding 500,000 clients. The technology brings data center–grade scalability to campus networks, eliminating the complexity of traditional controller-based systems. Arizona State University, one of the largest public universities in the U.S., has partnered with Arista to validate the new VESPA architecture.

Arista also expanded its AVA agentic AI platform, which unifies AI-driven networking operations across wired, wireless, data center, and security domains. AVA leverages Arista EOS and the NetDL data lake to enable autonomous event correlation, conversational troubleshooting, continuous monitoring, and automated root cause analysis.

To support industrial and outdoor deployments, Arista introduced two ruggedized switches—the 710HXP-28TXH and 710HXP-20TNH—engineered to withstand extreme environments while powering next-generation devices such as Wi-Fi 7 access points and high-power outdoor security systems.

All new software features and hardware platforms are expected to be generally available in Q1 2026.