Overview

The Arista 7050X3 are members of the Arista 7050X series and key components of

the Arista portfolio of data center switches. The adoption of high performance

servers using virtualization and containers with increasingly higher bandwidth is

accelerating the need for dense 25 and 100G Ethernet switching in both the leaf and

spine tiers of modern networks. The Arista 7050X3 Series high performance flexible

data center switches with a rich set of wire speed L2 and L3 features combine

extensive automation with programmability, low latency and consistent features for

software driven cloud networking.

The 7050X3 Series are available in a choice of configuration options. Combining

high density and industry leading power efficiency with typical power consumption

under 7W per 100GbE port the 7050CX3-32S and 7050CX3-32C are ideal for both

high performance leaf or collapsed spine tiers with airflow choices for back to front,

or front to back.

Featuring 48 ports of 25G SFP ports and a choice of 8 or 12 ports of 100G ports the

7050SX3-48YC8, 7050SX3-48YC8C and 7050SX3-48YC12 enable high performance in

a compact 1RU form factor. The 7050SX3-96YC8 system has 96 ports of 25G and 8

ports of 100G in 2U. The 7050SX3 systems ensure seamless migration from 1/10G to

25G and enables high density 25G solutions without network oversubscription. The

7050TX3-48C8, 7050SX3-48C8 and 7050SX3-48C8C with 48 1/10G ports deliver

consistent features and enhancements for Enterprise and carrier networks.

All models of the 7050X3 Series offer flexible forwarding tables with a Unified

Forwarding Table, latency from as low as 800 ns and a fully shared packet buffer of

up to 32MB for superior burst absorption. Comprehensive support for a wide range

of interface speeds including 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G combined with Arista

EOS ensures the 7050X3 delivers the flexibility and features for big data, cloud,

virtualized and traditional network designs and accommodates the myriad different

applications and east-west traffic patterns found in modern data centers.

7050X3 Series 10/25/40/50/100G Data Center Switches

Data Sheet

Product Highlights

Performance

• 7050CX3-32S and 7050CX3-32C:

32x QSFP100

• 7050SX3-96YC8: 96x SFP25 & 8x QSFP100

• 7050SX3-48YC12: 48x SFP25 & 12x

QSFP100

• 7050SX3-48YC8 and 7050SX3-48YC8C:

48x SFP25 & 8x QSFP100

• 7050SX3-48C8 and 7050SX3-48C8C:

48x SFP+ & 8x QSFP100

• 7050SX3-24YC4C: 24x SFP25 & 4x

QSFP100

• 7050TX3-48C8: 48x 10G-T & 8x QSFP100

• Flexible 40G and 100G support

• Quad 10GbE and 25GbE support

• Up to 128 x 10G, 25G or 64x 50G

• Up to 6.4 terabits per second

• Up to 2 billion packets per second

• Wire speed L2 and L3 forwarding

• Latency from 800 ns

Data Center Optimized Design

• Over 94% efficient power supplies

• 1+1 redundant & hot-swappable power

• N+1 redundant & hot-swappable fans

• Data center optimized airflow

• Tool less rails for simple installation

Cloud Networking Ready

• VXLAN and VM Tracer

• OpenFlow, DirectFlow and eAPI

• 288K MAC entries and 360K IPv4 Routes

• 168K IPv4 Host Routes

• 32 MB integrated intelligent buffer with

dynamic buffer allocation

Resilient Control Plane

• High Performance x86 CPU

• 8 GB or 16GB DRAM

Advanced Provisioning & Monitoring

• CloudVision

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

• LANZ for microburst detection

• DANZ Advanced Mirroring for visibility

• sFlow

• Self-configure and recover from USB

• Traffic aware ECMP and UCMP

Arista Extensible Operating System

• Single binary image for all products

• Stateful Fault Repair (SFR)

• Full Access to Linux shell and tools

• Extensible platform - bash, python, C++,

GO, OpenConfig

Arista EOS

The Arista 7050X3 series runs the same Arista EOS software as all Arista products,

simplifying network administration. Arista EOS is a modular switch operating system

with a unique state sharing architecture that cleanly separates switch state from

protocol processing and application logic. Built on top of a standard Linux kernel, all

EOS processes run in their own protected memory space and exchange state

through an in-memory database. This multi-process state sharing architecture

provides the foundation for in-service-software updates and self-healing resiliency.

With Arista EOS, advanced monitoring and automation capabilities such as Zero

Touch Provisioning, VMTracer and Linux based tools can be run natively on the

switch with the powerful x86 CPU subsystem.

Arista 7050X3 Series Switches: 7050SX3-48YC12, 7050CX3-32S,

7050CX3-32C, 7050SX3-96YC8, 7050SX3-48YC8,

7050SX3-48YC8C, 7050SX3-24YC4C, 7050SX3-48C8,

7050SX3-48C8C