Cloud Computing: Cisco Sues Arista Networks for Infringing a Dozen Patents
December 6, 2014
Grazed from Bloomber. Author: Andrew Harris.
Cisco Systems Inc. claims Arista Networks Inc. (ANET) 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…
Cisco responded today with two lawsuits filed in San Francisco federal court claiming patent infringement in one and accusing Arista of copying proprietary computer commands and instruction manual language in the other. “I am disappointed in Cisco’s tactics,” Ullal said today in an e-mailed statement. “Not the Cisco I once knew.”…
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