7300 Series Data Center Switch

Data Sheet

Product Highlights

Performance

• Over 20 Terabits per second fabric capacity

• Up to 15 billion packets per second

• Up to 2.56 Terabit per second per line card

• Wire speed L2 and L3 forwarding

• 1,024 wire-speed 10GbE ports

• 256 wire-speed 40GbE ports

• Latency below 2usec

High Availability

• 1+1 Supervisor redundancy

• N+N Grid redundant power system

• N+1 Fan module redundancy

• Redundant fabric modules

Cloud Networking Ready

• VXLAN and VM Tracer

• OpenFlow, DirectFlow and eAPI

• 12MB Dynamic Buffer per port group

Advanced Provisioning & Monitoring

• CloudVision

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

• LANZ for microburst detection

• DANZ Advanced Mirroring for visibility

• sFlow

• Self-configure and recover from USB

• Advanced Event Monitoring

Resilient Control Plane

• Quad-core Hyper-threaded x86 CPU

• 16GB DRAM / 4GB Flash

• Dual Supervisor modules

• User applications can run in a VM

Data Center Class Design

• 8RU and 13RU chassis options

• Front-to-back or back-to-front reversible

airflow for optimized cooling

• Under 3W per 10GbE port typical power

for lower cost of ownership

• Dense 10GbE and 40GbE

Arista Extensible Operating System

• Single binary image for all products

• Fine-grained truly modular network OS

• Stateful Fault Containment (SFC)

• Stateful Fault Repair (SFR)

• Full access to Linux shell and tools

• Extensible platform - bash, python, C++

Overview

The Arista 7300 Series modular switches are part of the Arista portfolio of data

center switches. The 7300 Series with 7300X Series line cards increase flexibility and

scalability for data center switches supporting both leaf and spine and SplineTM

applications for collapsed end of row and aggregation. The 7300X systems share a

common architecture with the Arista 7050X and 7250X Series and offer a choice of

two modular systems, a 4-slot and 8-slot that support advanced features for

network monitoring, precision timing and network virtualization to deliver scalable

high performance for software defined cloud networking.

Increased adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers and applications requiring higher

bandwidth is driving rapid adoption of 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switching. The

7300 Series support a choice of high density line cards in combination with wire

speed layer 2/3/4 performance that provides a flexible combination of 100M, 1G,

10G and 40G switching to design large leaf and spine networks for scale-out of

east-west traffic patterns with low latency and power efficiency.

With reversible front-to-rear or rear-to-front airflow, redundant and hot swappable

supervisor, power, fabric and cooling modules the system is purpose built for data

centers. The 7300 Series is energy efficient with typical power consumption of

under 3 watts per 10GbE port for a fully loaded chassis. All of these attributes make

the Arista 7300 Series an ideal platform for building reliable, low latency, resilient

and scalable data center networks. Combined with Arista EOS the 7300 Series

delivers advanced features for big data, cloud, virtualized and traditional designs.

Arista 7300X Series Modular Data Center Switches

Arista EOS

All Arista products including the 7300 Series runs the same Arista EOS software

binary image simplifying network administration with a single standard across all

switches. 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 together with stateful

switchover without the loss of data plane forwarding.

Arista EOS enables advanced monitoring and automation capabilities such as Zero

Touch Provisioning, LANZ, VM Tracer and Linux based tools to be run natively on the

switch.