Big Switch Networks, based on Stanford research, had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.
Cloud-networking software producer Arista Networks has paid an undisclosed amount to acquire US-based peer Big Switch Networks, formed to exploit technology invented at Stanford University, SDX reported on Wednesday.
Big Switch provides technology that supports public, enterprise and multi-cloud environments, facilitating data centre-switching, monitoring and security.
The company was co-founded by Kyle Forster and Guido Appenzeller in 2009 to commercialise software-defined networking, a technology originally developed at Stanford University.
Although Arista was the successful bidder, it beat…
