Arista launches VESPA mobility and AVA agentic AI

Arista Networks has announced new campus networking capabilities including Arista VESPA for large-scale WLAN mobility, expanded AVA agentic AI for AIOps, and ruggedized 710HXP switches for industrial and outdoor environments.

• Arista VESPA introduces a controller-less, standards-based WLAN mobility architecture that scales Wi‑Fi roaming domains to over 500,000 clients, delivering sub-second failover and removing traditional controller hardware dependencies; AVA now provides a unified agentic AI framework with multi-domain event correlation, conversational troubleshooting (Ask AVA), and continuous monitoring with automated root cause analysis.
• Two new ruggedized 710HXP platforms (710HXP-28TXH and 710HXP-20TNH) offer IP50 Din Rail and IP30 1RU switches with multi-gig and 90W high-power ports to support Wi‑Fi 7 access points and outdoor security cameras, all running Arista EOS and CloudVision, with general availability for the new software and hardware expected by Q1 2026; Arista will further detail the solutions in a blog and a webinar on January 22, 2026.
• Webinar details:
  • Date: January 22, 2026
  • Format: Online webinar
  • Subject: “Beyond the Controller: Arista VESPA for Massive Campus Wireless Mobility” (registration via provided link).