Arista Acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN Outfit

Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit

: It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks

Arista buys VeloCloud from Broadcom – TechTarget

VMware purchased VeloCloud in 2017 to bring SD-WAN into its NSX network virtualization portfolio for uses cases such as edge computing. In 2023 ...http://dlvr.it/TLhtR2

Arista Buys VeloCloud to reboot SD-WANs amid AI infrastructure shift

After sitting uneasily within Broadcom’s VMware portfolio for nearly two years, the VeloCloud SD-WAN platform has a new home: it has been acquired by Arista Networks for an undisclosed sum. For VeloCloud customers, the deal should offer ownership stability after years of chopping and changing. The SD-WAN pioneer, founded in 2012, was bought in 2017 by VMware, which itself had been acquired a year earlier as part of Dell’s acquisition of EMC. VMw…

Arista acquires VeloCloud SD-WAN business from Broadcom

Arista said the acquisition will better prepare it for next-generation SD-WAN demands as AI-driven data center traffic reshapes WAN requirements Arista Networks has agreed to acquire VMware’s former VeloCloud Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology from Broadcom, expanding its portfolio beyond traditional data center and campus networking into the WAN and branch markets. Broadcom came […]

Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO - SiliconANGLE

Arista Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire VeloCloud SD-WAN from Broadcom Inc., a deal that puts to bed ongoing reports that surfaced about six weeks ago. The purchase, for which a price wasn’t given but was reportedly about $1 billion, gives Arista a best-in-class software-defined wide-area network solution to complement its current high-end 7000 series […] The post Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as…