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Analyst
Antoine Chkaiban
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).
- Questions
- 13on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 0%none of 13 questions
- Companies
- 4questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 7with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 13 of 13 questions from 4 companies
ANETArista Networks6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how large is the overall opportunity today relative to the $1.2 billion
Show response
Jayshree sized the scale-across market at $3 to $4 billion in 2026 growing to roughly $15 billion by 2030, with Arista capturing about $1.2 billion now.
Calendar 2026 Q1
I am wondering how much your current supply allows you to grow this year and next
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Jayshree characterized supply constraints as a one-to-two-year phenomenon affecting all wafer fabrication. Growth raised from 20% to 25% to 27.7% but decommits continue.
Calendar 2025 Q3
can you maybe tell us about the progress that the consortium is making
Show response
Jayshree confirmed UEC 1.0 spec published June 2025, Arista fully compatible. ESUN specification expanding UEC into scale-up with growing vendor participation.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Can you please remind us what's required for scale-up technologies and how that differs from scale-outs
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Jayshree explained scale-up as rack-level I/O interconnect (currently proprietary NVLink), with Ethernet standards expected to open it up in coming years as incremental TAM.
Calendar 2025 Q1
NVIDIA introduced its first CPO switches, JTC for scale-out. And I was wondering whether that had any impact on your views
Show response
Jayshree maintained CPO has high failure rates and remains in labs. Arista supports all approaches including co-packaged copper, CPO, and pluggable optics.
Calendar 2024 Q4
I'd love to get your latest perspective on what you're hearing from service providers
Show response
Jayshree noted classic service providers have not seen huge uptick yet, but Neo Clouds and Tier 2 specialty AI-as-a-service providers are driving demand.
CSCOCisco Systems, Inc.4 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
is Cisco planning to participate to the scale-up opportunity? And will that be material
Show response
Robbins confirmed Silicon One roadmap includes scale-up silicon. Believes scale-up will shift to Ethernet variant, giving Cisco natural entry point.
How large do you think that opportunity can be relative to the large scale multi-gigawatt cloud data centers
Show response
Robbins said Unified Edge is critical for real-time edge inferencing. Deployment could be CDN, carrier POPs, or enterprise on-prem. Integrates compute, networking, storage in single system.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Could you provide some additional color on where you are seeing Ethernet came in the enterprise segment, what kind of cluster side
Show response
Robbins clarified enterprise Ethernet under GPUs is not yet a major opportunity, expects Nvidia partnership with HyperFabric and AI PODs to drive future enterprise adoption.
access to power as potentially being a bottleneck to roll out infrastructure this year
Show response
Robbins noted power constraints are primarily a webscale concern, not a significant enterprise bottleneck.
AMDAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc.2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q3
I'm just wondering if you see or hear any early indication that, in practice, they may be planning to sweat those GPUs for longer than that.
Show response
Lisa Su said there are early indications CSPs are extending GPU useful lives, with MI300X still performing well for inference even as MI355 and MI450 target new liquid-cooled facilities.
whether the developing relationship with OpenAI could be a tailwind to the development of your software stack.
Show response
Lisa Su confirmed OpenAI contributes to ROCm breadth especially on Triton; also cited broad AI-native customer engagements and using AI itself to accelerate ROCm kernel development.
NVDANVIDIA Corporation1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
I'd like to ask about space data centers, which some of your customers are considering
Show response
Jensen acknowledged poor economics today but said NVIDIA's Hopper is already in space and imaging workloads are a promising early use case.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| ANET Arista Networks | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| NVDA NVIDIA Corporation | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2025 Q1 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2025 Q3 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q4 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 1 |
| 2026 Q1 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 2 |
| 2026 Q2 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
- 2024 Q41 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2025 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q21 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q42 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
- 2026 Q12 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 2 companies
- 2026 Q21 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Cloud & AI8
- Innovation & R&D5
- Demand5
- Capex Investment2
- Revenue Growth2
- Supply Chain2
- Competitive Dynamics2
- Product Launch1