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Arista Networks is buying Mojo Networks, which does cloud-managed WiFi, or what it calls “Cognitive WiFi.” This will be Arista’s first acquisition, and the company expects to close the purchase during its third quarter. Arista didn’t say how much it’s paying for Mojo, a Mountain View, California-based company that was founded in 2002. Mojo has raised $69.4 million in funding.
Arista says the synergy between the two companies is compelling for its campus customers. The company only recently got into campus switching. In May it announced its new Campus Spline Ethernet platforms to help enterprise customers extend their data center networking practices to their campus networks.
Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal addressed the company’s entrance into campus.
“You might be thinking, ‘Why did we enter this market,’” she said. “And the simple fact is our customers have been asking us to do so for some time. We believe, [Mojo’s] cloud-managed Cognitive WiFi is a very natural complement to our next-generation campus and cloud networking portfolio.”
She added that in the past, WiFi was always a second-class citizen to wired, but “what we’re seeing now with 802.1ax and performances in general is WiFi is approaching multi-gigabit speed just like wired is. So the synergy for us is to really focus on making Mojo a software-based acquisition.”
The entire Mojo team of about 250 people will join Arista Networks, including its CEO Rick Wilmer and its founder and CTO Pravin Bhagwat.
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