Arista 7320X Series
Overview
High Performance, Feature Rich 10/40/100GbE Systems:
50Tbps & 256 x 100GbE, 512x 40GbE, 2048x 10GbE, 768x 10GBASE-T
Designed for large scale leaf / spine and Spline™ networks the Arista 7300X and 7320X Series modular switches deliver industry leading density and performance with a rich choice of interface types for server leaf and spine network deployment. They combine scalable L2 and L3 features with comprehensive network monitoring, virtualization and visibility features.
| 7300X | 7320X | |
|---|---|---|
| Description | The Arista 7300X are modular systems for high density 10GbE and 40GbE with up to 512 ports of 40G available in a choice of three systems each with reversible airflow. Ideal for building leaf/spine or Spline™ data center networks. | The Arista 7320X Series are two high capacity and compact modular systems that deliver high density 100GbE with a flexible choice of interface speeds. Ideal for mission critical spines and leaf-spine designs. |
| Models | 7304X, 7308X and 7316X | 7324X and 7328X |
| Maximum Switching Capacity | 10, 20 and 40Tbps | 25 and 50Tbps |
| Linecard slots | 4,8 and 16 | 4 and 8 |
| Maximum 100G Ports | – | 256 |
| Maximum 40G Ports | 512 | 256 |
| Maximum 10G Ports | 2048 | 1024 |
| Maximum 25G Ports | – | 1024 |
| Maximum 50G Ports | – | 512 |
| Redundant Supervisors | Yes | Yes |
The Foundation for Spline Networking
Architected to Operate at Cloud Network Scale
- 50Tbps system capacity / 38 Billion PPS
- Wire speed unicast & mcast
- Class leading latency and Dynamic Buffer Allocation
- Scalable Leaf / Spine and Spline Designs
Optimized for Virtualization and Cloud
- VXLAN and EOS Network Tracers
- Provisioning & scripting with Python and ZTP
- VM Tracer and LANZ for real-time traffic visibility
Comprehensive L2/L3 and 10G/40G Options
- Choice of 32 x 100G, 32x 40G / 48x 10GBASE-T + 4x 40G / 48 x 10G-SFP + 4x 40G
- Up to 1024 x 25GbE. 2048x 10G or 512x 40G in a single system
- Flexible 10GBASE-T option for 100M/1G/10G server access
- Rich L2 and L3 resources: MAC 288K / IPv4 Hosts 208K / 16K IPv4 & 8K IPv6 routes
Architecture
Arista 7300 Technical Architecture
The Arista 7300X and 7320X Series are designed with the latest in system on chip (SoC) silicon and software. The 7300X Series architecture is optimized for fully meshed east-west traffic patterns with mixed traffic loads found in both private and public cloud networks.
Featured Video: Modern Scale Out Cloud Network Designs
The 7300X and 7320X Series modular switches are designed for continuous operations with system wide monitoring of hardware and software components, simple serviceability and data center optimized airflow options. The series offers high availability of all critical components with redundant supervisors, power supplies, fabric and fan modules.
High Performance 10/40/100GbE Ethernet Spline
7300X Series
- 2048 x 10Gb, 512 x 40Gb and 768 10GBASE-T Ethernet Ports
- 2.56Tb of capacity for each linecard slot, for over 40Tbps total
- Dynamic Buffer Allocation to protect against drops under congestion
- Aggregate 30 Billion PPS of L2/L3 forwarding
7320X Series
- 256x 100GbE, 256 x 40GbE, 1024 x 10GbE and 25GbE Ports
- 6.4Tbps of capacity for each linecard slot, for over 50Tbps total
- 256MB of aggregate packet buffering
- Aggregate 38 Billion PPS of L2/L3 forwarding
High Availability
- Redundant Supervisor, fabric, fans and power
- Data Center optimized airflow
- In Service Software Upgrades
- Self-healing stateful fault repair (SFR)
- Stateful Supervisor Switchover*
High Performance Fabric Modules
- Efficient utilization of fabric using DLBF to optimally balance traffic
- 50Tbps Fabric
- Fabric with individually removable fan modules to improve system reliability
* Not yet supported in EOS.
Arista 7300 Series Technical Specifications
The Arista 7300X Series modular switches provide industry leading 10/40GbE density and performance. Available as a choice of 16 slot, 8 slot and 4 slot systems they combine wirespeed forwarding with comprehensive L2 and L3 features.
The 7300X Series supports a choice of high density wirespeed layer 2/3/4 performance linecards that offer a flexible combination of 1/10/40GbE switching to design large leaf and spine networks for scale-out of east-west traffic patterns with low latency and power efficiency.
Featured Video: 7300 Series Deep Dive
Arista 7320X Series Technical Specifications
The Arista 7320X Series modular switches provide industry leading 40/100GbE density and performance. Available as a choice of 8 slot and 4 slot systems they combine wirespeed forwarding with comprehensive L2 and L3 features.
The 7320X Series supports high density layer 2/3/4 wirespeed performance linecards that offer a flexible combination of interface speeds including 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE to design large leaf and spine networks for scale-out of east-west traffic patterns with low latency and power efficiency and enable seamless migration from 10/40GbE to 25/100GbE soluitions.