Aman Shah

Network architecture · Live media over IP · AI infrastructure

Aman Sushil Shah

I design the networks behind live television and large compute clusters: SMPTE ST 2110 media fabrics with precision timing, and scale-out Ethernet for GPU deployments. Over eleven years at Arista Networks I have led architecture for some of the largest IP broadcast facilities in the United States.

Role
Technical Lead, Arista Networks
Since
2015
Based
New York metro area
Field
SMPTE ST 2110 · PTP · AI fabrics
ORCID
0009-0009-8628-4465
GitHub
github.com/Amanshah91
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/shahaman

Focus areas

SMPTE ST 2110 PTP / SMPTE ST 2059-2 ST 2022-7 red/blue redundancy Multicast at facility scale NMOS IS-04 / IS-05 400G / 800G spine-leaf fabrics DWDM and 400G WAN contribution AI cluster networking (RoCEv2) Network automation Network access control

Writing

0 published

Articles on ST 2110 facility design, precision timing and AI networking are on the way.

Talks and publications

Bylined work in professional venues

  • 2026

    Article

    SMPTE ST 2110 design best practices for live media facilities

    SMPTE

    In progress
  • Oct 2026

    Talk

    PTP best practices (SMPTE PTP Bootcamp), co-presented with Ryan Morris

    NAB Show New York

    Delivered

Selected work

Customers are described without names

Broadcast · about 1,000 switches

National broadcast news headquarters

Lead network architect for two years on a new New York headquarters: the ST 2110 media network with red/blue ST 2022-7 redundancy and PTP timing, plus the data center and campus networks, across studios, control rooms and production spaces.

Broadcast · migration

Cable news move from SDI to IP

Led the network side of a 24/7 cable news network’s migration from SDI to an IP production plant, keeping the channel on air through cutover.

Sports · 800G · WAN

Sports network headquarters and league venues

Architecture for a sports network’s headquarters move: campus, 800G ST 2110 fabric and DWDM/400G WAN contribution, with replay switching across 30 ballparks.

Data center · AI

Data center and AI fabrics

Data centers with 100G storage backbones for global insurers, networks for New York City agencies, and scale-out Ethernet for customer GPU and CPU clusters.

Experience

Arista Networks, New York

  1. 2021 – now

    Technical Lead

    Arista Networks

    • Leads architecture for media-over-IP and AI networking customers.
    • Lead architect for a national broadcast headquarters network of about 1,000 switches.
    • Network architecture for a sports network headquarters move and league venue switching.
  2. 2017 – 2021

    Systems Engineer

    Arista Networks

    • Pre- and post-sales owner for enterprise and public sector accounts.
    • Designed data centers with 100G storage backbones for several global insurance companies.
    • Designed data center and campus networks for New York City agencies.
    • Team lead for CloudVision automation; built the New York engineering lab.
  3. 2015 – 2017

    Advanced Services Engineer

    Arista Networks

    • Deployment and support for financial services and enterprise customers.

Education and memberships

M.S. Electrical Engineering

New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 2015

B.E. Biomedical Engineering

University of Mumbai (D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering), 2013

SMPTE

Member, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

ORCID

orcid.org/0009-0009-8628-4465