7050X3 Series | Platform Overview

Advanced Event Management (AEM)

Simplifying the overall operations, AEM provides the tools to customize alerts and actions. AEM is a powerful and flexible set of tools to

automate tasks and customize the behavior of EOS and the operation of the overall data center switching infrastructure. AEM allows

operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and automate actions based

on changing network conditions.

Smart System Upgrade

Smart System Upgrade is a network application designed to address one of the most complicated and challenging tasks facing data

center administrators - network infrastructure maintenance. Changes to the underlying network infrastructure can affect large numbers

of devices and cause significant outages. SSU provides a fully customizable suite of features that tightly couples data center

infrastructure to technology partners allowing for intelligent insertion and removal, programmable updates to software releases and

open integration with application and infrastructure elements.

Virtualization

Supporting next-generation virtualized data centers requires tight integration with orchestration tools and encapsulation technologies

such as VXLAN. The 7050X3 build on the valuable tools already provided by the Arista VM Tracer suite to integrate directly into

encapsulated environments. Offering a wire-speed gateway between VXLAN and traditional L2/3 environments, they make integration

of non-VXLAN aware devices including servers, firewalls and load-balancers seamless and provide the ability to leverage VXLAN as a

standards based L2 extension technology for non-MPLS environments.

Precise Data Analysis

Arista Latency Analyzer (LANZ) is an integrated feature of EOS. LANZ provides precise real-time monitoring of micro-burst and

congestion events before they impact applications, with the ability to identify the sources and capture affected traffic for analysis.

Advanced analytics are provided with features like buffer monitoring with configurable thresholds, in-band path and latency

monitoring, event driven trace packets and granular time stamping.

Precision Timing (IEEE 1588)

Arista’s hardware derived Precision Time Protocol solution provides a robust mechanism for accurate in-band time distribution in high

performance environments. The system clock can be synchronized using IEEE 1588 PTP.

Dynamic Load Balancing *

Traditional hash-based load balancing algorithms can result in link and path allocations with short term imbalances and under

utilization of aggregate capacity. This is aggravated further in modern data centers with high traffic loads, varied flow duration, mixed

packet sizes and micro-bursts. DLB enhancements to load balancing consider the real time load on links and dynamically assign new

and existing flows to the best link. When imbalances are detected active flows and new flows are allocated to the least loaded paths to

reduce the possibility of drops. Supported with any combination of ECMP and LAG/MLAG, DLB delivers higher throughout with

enhanced load distribution while offering the user an open implementation.

Flexible Pipeline

The Arista 7050X3 series support an enhanced forwarding architecture with smarter and flexible packet pipeline which allows the

addition of new capabilities to the data plane of the packet processor through software upgrades without changes or replacement of

the underlying hardware. This allows for rapid testing and deployment avoiding costly replacements or major upgrades. Together with

flexible resource allocation provided by the Unified Forwarding Tables (UFT), the programmable pipeline increases the flexibility of the

platform allowing for broad use cases and ensures continued investment protection.

Network Address Translation

The Arista 7050X3 series support static and dynamic address translation at line rate and introducing no additional latency when the

mappings are set up. High performance environments can take advantage of NAT to resolve addressing challenges such as masking

internal addresses and translating overlapping ranges resulting in simpler network topologies without performance penalty.

* Not currently supported in EOS