Arista Academy

As a trusted strategic partner, Auben Networks removes all geographical and language barriers. We deliver our official Arista training through flexible formats tailored to your corporate structure.

Flexible Delivery

Available as open-enrollment Live Remote Courses featuring official, hands-on virtual labs, or customized On-Site Training delivered directly at your corporate offices or data center facilities.

Multi-Language Classrooms

Our elite senior engineers deliver the entire official curriculum, technical manuals, and lab sessions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.

Real Software Labs

Every format features individual, cloud-based practical environments running real Arista software (vEOS), not emulators.

Arista Academy

Network Foundations Track ▼

  • Course Overview:

  • The Arista Network Foundations track is the official gateway to unlocking the full potential, flexibility, and power of Arista Networks. This program is engineered to equip IT professionals with the essential knowledge and critical skills needed to configure, operate, and troubleshoot initial deployments of Arista EOS-based networks.

    • Target Audience:

    • Entry-level network engineers or engineers transitioning to the Arista ecosystem for the first time.
    • Network Administrators.
    • Network Operations (NOC) and Support Engineers.

    Prerequisites:

    • Basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
    • Fundamental understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts (recommended, but not mandatory).

    Key skills your team will develop:

    • Mastery of core networking technologies and protocols under Arista's modern, cloud-driven approach.
    • Basic configuration, management, and operation of Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System).
    • Clear understanding of open architectures versus traditional, proprietary legacy solutions.

    Core Syllabus (Foundations Curriculum):

    • Introduction to Arista EOS: Unique state-sharing architecture, operational benefits, and essential Command Line Interface (CLI) commands.
    • Modern Network Engineering Concepts: A refreshed approach focusing on standard, open protocols while avoiding outdated proprietary tech.
    • Basic Arista Switch Configuration: User management, authentication, interfaces, and assigning VLANs on access ports.
    • Introduction to CloudVision: A foundational look at Arista’s centralized automation, telemetry, and network observability platform.
    • Initial Layer 2 and Layer 3 Operations: Configuring static routing, IP addressing, and basic connectivity troubleshooting.

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Data Center Track (Operations & Engineering) ▼

  • Course Overview:

  • The Arista Data Center learning track provides comprehensive, deep-dive knowledge and hands-on experience with advanced Arista architectures. It focuses extensively on Layer 2 and Layer 3 Leaf-Spine network designs, underlay/overlay configurations, and VXLAN implementations within modern, mission-critical Data Centers.

  • This track is divided into two specialized sub-tracks tailored to distinct team roles:

    • Engineering Sub-Track: Focuses on architecture, design, and building L2/L3 leaf-spine structures.
    • Operations Sub-Track: Concentrates on Day-2 tasks, including advanced telemetry, change control, and multi-domain troubleshooting.

    Target Audience:

    • Senior Network Engineers & Infrastructure Architects.
    • Network Operations (NOC) Leads.
    • Advanced-level Network Administrators.

    Prerequisites:

    • A solid, proven understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 core network technologies and protocols.
    • Prior familiarity with Spine/Leaf topologies is highly beneficial.

    Key skills your team will develop:

    • Advanced Fabrics: Design and deploy resilient L2 and L3 Leaf-Spine data center architectures.
    • Routing Mastery: Configure and troubleshoot multi-protocol BGP for both infrastructure underlays and overlays.
    • Overlay Infrastructure: Architect and engineer VXLAN overlays utilizing BGP EVPN control planes.
    • Orchestration & Automation: Integrate Arista’s CloudVision platform to seamlessly automate, provision, and orchestrate complex network states.

    Comprehensive Sub-Track Syllabus:

  • Engineering Sub-Track (Design & Architecture)

    • Layer 2 Leaf-Spine Fabrics: MLAG deep dives, LACP, default gateway redundancy via VARP/VRRP, and CLI vs. CloudVision Configlet fabric building.
    • Layer 3 Leaf-Spine Core: Introducing OSPF/IS-IS options, eBGP underlay configurations, ECMP load balancing, and design scalability variations.
    • VXLAN Architecture: Deep dive into the data plane, Multicast, HER (Head-End Replication), and VXLAN with MLAG integration best practices.
    • EVPN Overlay & Advanced Concepts: MP-BGP control planes, Route Types 2, 3, and 5, Symmetric vs. Asymmetric IRB (Integrated Routing and Bridging), and Active-Active Multi-homing (ESI).
    • CloudVision Studios: Fabric provisioning, EVPN service injection, host interface handling, and external network connectivity using CloudVision Studios.

  • Operations Sub-Track (Day-2 Tasks, Automation & Diagnostics)

    • CloudVision Setup & Provisioning: Multi-node clustering, CVaaS onboarding, ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning), and ZTR (Zero Touch Replacement) device rollouts.
    • Change Control & Compliance: Managing containers, configuration rollbacks, snapshot staging, and automated network sanity checks.
    • Telemetry & Advanced Monitoring: Building Custom Dashboards, Syslog parsing, PTP tracking, and real-time network visibility via topology maps.
    • EOS Operations & System Upgrades: Smart System Upgrades (SSU), MLAG ISSU (In-Service Software Upgrade), and deep hardware-software diagnostics.
    • Advanced Diagnostics (AEM & CLI): Latency Analyzer (LANZ), Advanced Event Management scripting, SFP troubleshooting, memory/flash recoveries, tcpdump, and iperf isolation.

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Campus Track (Operations & Engineering) ▼

  • Course Overview:

  • The Arista Campus learning track equips network professionals with the knowledge and skills required to configure, troubleshoot, and manage modern Arista Layer 2 and Layer 3 Campus architectures. Moving away from rigid legacy models, this track deep dives into cloud-grade, unified campus design, combining both wired and wireless infrastructures into a single automated operational flow.

  • This track is divided into two specialized sub-tracks tailored to distinct team roles:

    • Engineering Sub-Track: Focuses on the architectural design, fabric implementation, and deployment of L2/L3 wired networks.
    • Operations Sub-Track: Concentrates on Day-2 corporate tasks, focusing heavily on advanced telemetry, monitoring, wireless management, and troubleshooting.

    Target Audience:

    • Senior Network Engineers & Architects, Wireless Network Leads, Network Operations (NOC) Teams, and Corporate Network Administrators.

    Prerequisites:

    • Solid understanding of Layer 2 and 3 core network technologies. Prior exposure to basic network management tools is helpful.

    Key skills your team will develop:

    • Cognitive Campus Architecture: Transition from legacy, complex network stacking to modern, highly available, and open L2/L3 campus designs.
    • Wired & Wireless Integration: Unify wired networking and high-performance wireless deployment under a single, centralized management framework.
    • Cloud-Grade Operations: Deploy Arista’s CloudVision Cognitive Unified Edge (CV-CUE) to orchestrate and automate Day-2 corporate campus tasks.
    • Advanced Edge Security: Implement robust network visibility, automated config sanity checks, and 802.1x endpoint searching for proactive threat containment.

    Comprehensive Sub-Track Syllabus:

  • Engineering Sub-Track (Campus Architecture & Design)

    • Arista Cognitive Campus Solution: Overview of traditional vs. Arista Universal Cloud Network campus fabric architectures.
    • Layer 2 & Layer 3 Campus Wired Networks: High-availability design, configuring access/trunk ports, inter-VLAN routing, and building resilient L3 campus fabrics.
    • Campus Fabric Operations: Implementing modern alternatives to legacy stacking technologies using standards-based MLAG and open routing protocols.
    • Campus Provisioning with CloudVision Studios: End-to-end multi-device provisioning, static configuration studios, management connectivity orchestration, and workflow validation.

  • Operations Sub-Track (Day-2 Tasks, Automation & Diagnostics)

    • CloudVision Overview & Setup for Campus: Device registration, onboarding corporate hardware, and navigating the CloudVision user interface.
    • Wired Campus Monitoring & Diagnostics: Building operations dashboards, event management, config sanity checks, and real-time topology filtering.
    • Wireless Fundamentals & Deployment (CV-CUE): Introduction to Campus Wi-Fi, CloudVision Cognitive Unified Edge (CV-CUE), access point provisioning, and radio frequency monitoring.
    • Campus Security & Troubleshooting: Zero-Trust posture, 802.1x endpoint search details, parsing syslogs, and advanced hardware/software system isolation.

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WAN Routing (MPLS Core) ▼

  • Course Overview:

  • The Arista WAN Routing – MPLS Core learning track provides comprehensive, deep-dive knowledge of MPLS-based WAN transport technologies and modern Segment Routing architectures. The program empowers network professionals to design, configure, and troubleshoot ultra-high-speed WAN infrastructures, ensuring an efficient transition toward next-generation networks driven by automation and intelligent routing.

    • Target Audience:

    • Senior Network Engineers & WAN Infrastructure Architects.
    • Service Provider Operations & Telecom Engineers.
    • Advanced Administrators managing Data Center Interconnect (DCI) initiatives.

    Prerequisites:

    • A solid, proven understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 core network technologies, alongside prior familiarity with IGP routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS) and BGP fundamentals.

    Key skills your team will develop:

    • Core Transport Mastery: Command MPLS label switching components (LDP, RSVP-TE) and the deployment of foundational Pseudowires.
    • Advanced VPN Services: Design and implement highly secure Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services utilizing EVPN control planes.
    • Segment Routing Innovation: Architect and control Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) models and Color Steering policies.
    • WAN Optimization: Execute advanced diagnostics, validation, and multi-domain troubleshooting on transit protocols in distributed environments.

    Comprehensive Sub-Track Syllabus:

    • Lesson 1: MPLS Architecture & Foundations: Label distribution primitives, packet behavior across transit routers, and LDP session establishment.
    • Lesson 2: Virtual Private Networks (VPNs): Configuring E-Line with LDP pseudowires, evolution toward EVPN technologies, VRF operations, and handling EVPN Route Types 2 and 5.
    • Lesson 3: Legacy Traffic Engineering: Architectural design of RSVP-TE tunnels, bandwidth reservation strategies, and link protection mechanisms.
    • Lesson 4: Introduction to Segment Routing (SR): SR global block fundamentals, control plane migration paths, and initial SR implementations.
    • Lesson 5: Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE): Advanced traffic engineering metrics, explicit path mapping, candidate path selection, and steering traffic via Color Policies.
    • Lesson 6: SR-WAN & DCI Architectures: Practical applications of modern wide-area networking and next-generation multi-site data center interconnection.

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Automation Foundations & Advanced ▼

  • Course Overview:

  • The Arista Automation Foundations learning track is structured to build and consolidate essential automation skills for deploying and operating Arista EOS-based networks. The program teaches traditional network engineers to adopt modern, code-driven methodologies—accelerating provisioning, standardizing configuration policies, and guaranteeing operational resilience through programmability.

    • Target Audience:

    • Network Engineers transitioning into NetOps / DevOps roles.
    • Infrastructure Administrators and Data Center Operations Leads.
    • Network Architects tasked with driving large-scale standardization and orchestration.

    Prerequisites:

    • Fundamental networking knowledge (basic routing and switching) and general familiarity with command-line interfaces (CLI). No advanced prior programming experience is required.

    Key skills your team will develop:

    • eAPI Programmability: Programmatically interact with Arista EOS using external scripts, web protocols, and modern automation tools.
    • Ansible Network Automation: Build and execute advanced Playbooks to manage configuration deployments and Day-2 operational tasks at scale.
    • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Adopt advanced design frameworks like Arista AVD (Ansible Validated Designs) to model and deploy complex topologies from code repositories.
    • Centralized Orchestration: Seamlessly integrate external automated workflows directly with Arista's CloudVision platform.

    Comprehensive Sub-Track Syllabus:

    • Module 1: Network Automation with Python & EOS eAPI: API calling fundamentals, enabling eAPI on Arista devices, exploring commands using the eAPI Explorer, and executing on-box/off-box automation.
    • Module 2: REST API Fundamentals: Core concepts of RESTful architectures, HTTP methods (GET, POST), response codes, headers, and secure token/API key authentication mechanisms.
    • Module 3: Automating EOS & CloudVision with Ansible: Introduction to the Ansible ecosystem, host inventories, structured variables, and executing automated workflows on Arista fabrics.
    • Module 4: Introduction to Arista AVD (Ansible Validated Designs): Data-driven network design principles, leveraging Git/GitHub for network version control, and agile data center fabric provisioning using PyAVD.

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