Power of One. One simple network. One scalable architecture. One seamless experience connecting billions. Anytime, anywhere: Arrcus

Arrcus was founded to enhance business efficiency through superior network connectivity. Arrcus’ mission is to democratize networking by providing the best-in-class software with the most flexible consumption model at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Transparency means collaborating with your talented teammates and producing collaborative solutions that solve networking challenges. When giving feedback, give it early, be direct, be constructive, be honest, and remove your ego from the equation.

At Arrcus, every team member is responsible for the product, focused on the mission, and puts all of his/her effort into pushing the company to the next level. Arrcus works fast, efficiently, and iterate based on customer feedback. Most of all, Arrcus builds a product that its customers love.

Routing everywhere with massively scalable data centers

5G, edge computing deployments continue to ramp up, driven by explosive growth in rich media content, hyper-connected users/devices, and mobile traffic. The scale and performance requirements are driving a re-think of the entire underlying network infrastructure, whether it is for on-prem, edge, or multi-cloud deployments as data centers are now in all parts of the network.

IP Clos is the preeminent architecture among data centers for its ability to scale east-west. Merchant silicon advancements have allowed routing to go closer to hosts. As data centers scale out the only way to continue to operate at scale is through automation of provisioning, policy, and process.

The Arrcus IP data center Clos fabric

Built from first principles, the Arrcus IP Clos solution uses ArcOS, the industry-leading, open networking software to enable massively scalable data center Clos fabrics. Furthermore, the innovative BGP Link State Vector Routing (LSVR) technology, along with the standards-based OpenConfig models, significantly reduces operational complexity and costs while enriching design choices. The ArcOS IP Clos solution addresses the above challenges by providing the following:

Architected with scale, performance, and availability as key pillars
Supports switching and deep-buffer routing merchant silicon hardware
Supports Clos-wide resiliency, process restartability, and rapid software upgradability
Seamless integration with modern automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform etc.
Seamless connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments using Arrcus’s MCN solution

Scalability with host mobility

Data centers are in need of finding solutions to their ever-increasing requirements of scale, performance, host mobility, and reduced failure domains. The data center journey has evolved from the redundancy, efficiency, and scale limitations of Spanning-Tree (STP) to packet encapsulation (MAC-in-IP). EVPN VXLAN addresses these needs using VXLAN, a standards-based encapsulation used in the data plane, with BGP EVPN on the control plane. It provides a MAC and IP information distribution using BGP, a larger namespace in the overlay, and leverages layer 3 ECMP.

The Arrcus BGP-EVPN multi-tenant data center Clos fabric

Built from first principles, the Arrcus EVPN VXLAN Clos solution uses ArcOS, the industry-leading, open networking software to enable massively scalable, multi-tenant data center Clos fabrics. The ArcOS EVPN VXLAN solution addresses the above challenges by providing the following:

A programmable infrastructure with an open set of APIs
Scale-out architecture
Standards-based VXLAN overlays
Total host and IP mobility (decoupling the identity of a host to its location)
Reduced costs with the freedom to choose from a wide variety of merchant silicon hardware

Real-time and scalable monitoring fabric

Global Enterprise organizations are modernizing their data centers, adopting public cloud infrastructures, and embarking on edge computing initiatives. All these lead to highly distributed and complex environments placing immense strain on the network and its ability to respond rapidly to anomalies while fulfilling compliance mandates like GDPR, PCI, and SOX.

Monitoring and analytics for the modern hyperscale networks demand continuous & real-time visibility based on streaming telemetry architecture, intelligent & proactive security analytics with closed-loop automation, and a flexible notification framework that integrates with popular IT platforms like ServiceNow, Pagerduty, and more.

Arrcus hyperscale network management with proactive analytics

Leveraging a first-principles approach, Arrcus ArcIQ and ArcOS enables the Enterprise IT organizations with a real-time network visibility and actionable & proactive analytics platform. Platform provides a continuous monitoring capability built on streaming telemetry with support for select third-party network devices. Key benefits of the platform include:

An autonomous and real-time visibility that continuously collects network-wide data. Analytics engine based on modern processing models analyzes the data for alerting and notification
Platform ability to ingest a vast amount of network data and process them for insights to include route origins, traffic flow and malicious activities enables proactive security enforcement and mitigate attacks
As an integrated solution of ArcOS and ArcIQ, network data is collected across all layers of the underlay and overlay. With support for RestAPIs, IT organizations can integrate into other observability tools and enhance operational efficiency.

Meet the leader behind the success of Arrcus

Shekar Ayyar is a seasoned technology executive and industry leader with over twenty-five years of experience spanning general management, research, strategy, mergers & acquisitions and business development. Before joining Arrcus, Shekar was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Telco and Edge Cloud business at VMware. He incubated and grew this business to become one of the largest vertical opportunities for VMware in the context of 5G and Edge Computing.

Prior to his General Manager role, Shekar was EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development, leading VMware’s M&A and strategic investments for several years. From opportunity and target identification, to deal structuring, negotiation, and closure, he oversaw over 60 acquisitions and investments across a wide range of target companies and transaction sizes. These included the acquisitions of Nicira for software defined networking, Airwatch for mobility management, Velocloud for software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), Heptio for cloud-native Kubernetes orchestration, and Uhana for AI driven closed loop automation of mobile networks.

Before joining VMware in 2007, Shekar led product management and business development at companies like BindView, a compliance and security software company acquired by Symantec and Instantis, Inc. a web application automation company acquired by Oracle. In prior roles at other companies, including Lucent and McKinsey, Shekar advised C-level executives on a wide range of strategic technology and business decisions.

Shekar has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He also holds a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, both in electrical engineering.

Shekar is on the board of Altair as well as the regional board of Room to Read, a non-profit focused on supporting literacy and girls’ education globally.