Simplify Branch Networking

A typical branch network runs three separate management systems: a switch management platform for the wired infrastructure, a wireless LAN controller or cloud dashboard for the Wi-Fi access points, and a separate management console for the edge security appliance or firewall. Each system has its own inventory, its own event log, its own alert system, and its own troubleshooting workflow. When a user reports a connectivity problem at a branch, diagnosing it requires correlating events from all three systems to determine whether the fault is in the wired segment, the wireless association, the upstream link, or the edge security policy. The operational overhead of maintaining separate platforms and the diagnostic complexity of correlating events across them scales with the number of branches and grows each time a new branch is deployed.

Arista's Cognitive Unified Edge brings wired, wireless, and edge security infrastructure under a single CloudVision CUE management plane: one inventory, one event stream, one telemetry pipeline, and one AI-driven root-cause analysis engine that correlates events across all three infrastructure types simultaneously. At the wireless tier, the C-400 Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) indoor access point provides the latest Wi-Fi generation for high-density branch environments, with multi-link operation (MLO) for increased throughput and reduced latency; the C-360 Wi-Fi 6E extends wireless coverage into the 6 GHz band for deployments that need spectrum separation from legacy 2.4/5 GHz congestion. At the wired tier, the CCS-720XPM provides multi-gigabit PoE switching with the uplink capacity to power and connect next-generation Wi-Fi 7 APs (which draw more power than Wi-Fi 6 APs) without requiring wiring changes. At the edge, Edge Threat Management provides UTM-class security (intrusion detection, web filtering, application control) at the branch WAN boundary, managed through the same CloudVision CUE interface as the wired and wireless infrastructure.