At Mobility Field Day 13, Arista demonstrated a clear and confident strategy for advancing campus networking, with a strong emphasis on high-efficiency wireless, AIOps-driven visibility, and secure access at scale. The company’s presentations focused on how to deliver robust user experience across large, roaming-intensive environments like universities and enterprise campuses by bringing consistency and automation to both the data and control planes.
New Momentum for the Cognitive Campus
Kumar Srikantan opened the session with an overview of the progress Arista has made in its campus solution over the past year. Central to this update was the expansion of the Wi-Fi 7 access point lineup, improvements to the switching portfolio, and tighter integration with the CloudVision platform. These developments position Arista to address modern campus needs where seamless mobility, high client density, and intelligent troubleshooting are expected rather than optional.
Arista’s drumbeat throughout was their framing of the campus as a unified fabric, not a set of loosely coupled systems. Their current approach treats the wired and wireless infrastructure as parts of the same operational and analytical domain, especially as data demand continues to grow at the edge. This gives network admins and engineers better visibility and extensibility across the entire ecosystem.
Scalable Roaming for Large Domains
Ken Duda, Arista’s CTO and co-founder, followed with a technically rich session on roaming scalability. He addressed challenges faced by large campus networks where clients roam frequently across access points. Drawing from Arista’s experience in high-scale data center and AI network designs, Duda outlined how the team is applying lessons in deterministic forwarding and traffic optimization to unify the wired and WLAN fabric.
His session highlighted the importance of minimizing roaming latency and avoiding unnecessary tunnel overlays, both of which degrade performance and complicate troubleshooting. By aligning client mobility mechanisms with a consistent data plane strategy, Arista aims to create a more predictable and scalable wireless experience.
Wi-Fi 7 in Practice: MLO Testing Insights
Asvin Kumar presented results from Arista’s internal testing of Wi-Fi 7 clients, focusing specifically on Multi-Link Operation (MLO). Through side-by-side demonstrations of MLO-enabled and legacy clients, Arista showed that MLO offers tangible improvements in spectrum usage and link stability. Clients that support MLO were able to dynamically distribute traffic across multiple bands, leading to better throughput and lower retransmission rates.
This wasn’t just a discussion of theoretical gains. The lab setup replicated real-world conditions and client behavior, offering evidence that Wi-Fi 7 features like MLO are worth the investment, especially in high-density or latency-sensitive environments.
Monitoring User Happiness with AIOps
Robert Ferruolo and Senthil Shanmugavadivel presented next on Arista’s Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) capabilities. Rather than relying solely on signal strength or throughput charts, the system uses real-time analytics, combined with machine learning, to assess user experience more holistically. Key metrics like application latency, session drops, and client onboarding times are captured and analyzed automatically.
The Multi-Function Radio architecture plays a key role here, passively monitoring client behavior and environmental RF factors without interrupting traffic. This data feeds into Arista’s AIOps engine to generate actionable insights, such as identifying root causes of degradation before users report them.
Zero-Trust Networking with CloudVision AGNI
Security was also a focal point, as displayed by Arista’s next-generation network access control solution: CloudVision AGNI. Anubhav Gupta and Parul Sharma showcased how AGNI integrates with third-party security tools like CrowdStrike to dynamically adjust access policies. The platform’s use of dynamic segmentation, posture-based policy enforcement, and Unique Pre-Shared Keys (UPSK) authentication provides a flexible foundation for zero-trust architectures.
By aligning identity, device posture, and network behavior into a single control plane, AGNI makes access control both more responsive and easier to operate. It’s designed not just to secure endpoints, but to give operators clarity in complex, hybrid work environments.
Looking Ahead
Arista’s presentations at Mobility Field Day 13 confirmed that the company is not just iterating on wireless hardware but rethinking how mobility, visibility, and security come together in modern campus networks. With an engineering-first approach and continued investment in scalable automation, Arista is positioning itself as a serious player in the enterprise mobility space.
For IT teams managing distributed or high-density networks, the key takeaway is clear: Wi-Fi 7 alone won’t solve operational pain points, but when paired with AIOps and policy automation, it becomes a foundation for sustainable performance at scale.
