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Fly News Breaks for October 15, 2018
CSCO, ANET
Oct 15, 2018 | 09:12 EDT
William Blair analyst Jason Ader says he recently learned from a federal value-added reseller contact that Arista Networks (ANET) has won a multiyear award with the Department of Defense for the unclassified piece of the Pentagon network, which encompasses 80,000 ports across multiple facilities. Shares of Arista Networks are up 3%, or $7.13, to $229.50 in premarket trading. The analyst's contact estimates the size of the contract at roughly $100M over multiple years, shared among Arista, Aruba, and the VAR. The contract win was a competitive displacement of Cisco Systems (CSCO), and includes Arista for core switching and routing, and Aruba for edge switching, Ader tells investors in a research note. He points out that the award is currently under protest by Cisco. While the deal by itself "should be a needle-mover" for Arista, it also represents a "game-changing development for the company in the U.S. federal vertical, where it has had very limited penetration historically," Ader contends. He believes the win "could open many new doors in the future" for Arista, both in Department of Defense and other government agencies. Ader reiterates an Outperform rating on Arista.
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