High Performance, Feature Rich 10/40/100G Systems: 50Tbps & 256 x 100G, 512x 40G, 2048x 10G, 768x 10GBASE-T

Designed for large scale leaf / spine and Spline™ networks the Arista 7300X 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 7300X3
Description The Arista 7300X are modular systems for high density 10G and 40G 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™ datacenter networks. The Arista 7300X3 are modular systems for high density 25/10G and 100/40G with up to 256 ports of 100G available in a choice of two systems. Ideal for building leaf/spine or Spline™ datacenter and campus networks
Models 7304X, 7308X and 7316X 7304X and 7308X
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

*All resource values based on maximum hardware capacity

Arista 7300 Technical Architecture

The Arista 7300X and 7300X3 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

Modular Switches for Leaf and Spine Networks

The 7300X and 7300X3 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 10G, 512 x 40G 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

7300X3 Series

  • 256x 100G, 256 x 40G, 1024 x 10G and 25G Ports
  • 6.4Tbps of capacity for each linecard slot, for over 50Tbps total
  • 256MB of aggregate packet buffering
  • Aggregate 32 Billion PPS of L2/L3 forwarding

High Availability

  • Redundant Supervisor, fabric, fans and power
  • Datacenter 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

7300 Series Deep Dive

System Performance:

The Arista 7300 systems can be fully populated with up to 16, eight or four linecards respectively

  7316 7308 7304
Description Half rack of switching that delivers the highest 40GbE capacity in the industry An 8 slot system with airflow for server or network rows replacing Catalyst 6509 Compact high density and resilient system with flexible interface choices for leaf / spine and collapsed spline
Switching Capacity 40Tbps 20Tbps 10Tbps
Linecards 16 8 4
10G Ports 2048 1024 512
40G Ports 512 256 128
Forwarding Rate 30 Bpps 15 Bpps 7.5 Bpps
Total Buffer 384MB 192MB 96MB
Rack Units 21 13 8
 

Linecard Comparison:

7300X Series linecards provide a choice of speed and density addressing 1/10/40 GbE requirements with a consistent set of features. Each module is power efficient and delivers consistent performance and low latency with a dynamically allocated buffer that is optimized for fully meshed East-West traffic patterns.

  7300X-32Q 7300X-64S 7300X-64T
Ports 32 QSFP+

48 SFP+

4 QSFP+

48 10G-T

4 QSFP+

10G Interfaces 128 (QSFP+) 64 64 (48-T, 16-X)
40G Interfaces 32 4 4
Port Buffer 24MB 12MB 12MB
Nominal Power 238W 211W 290W
Forwarding Rate 1.92Bpps 960Mpps 960Mpps
 

Linecard Features:

Each 7300X Series linecard delivers a consistent set of features supporting layer 2 and layer 3 datacenter designs with predictable and linear scaling.

  7300 Linecards
Latency 550ns - 2usec (40G)
MAC Table Size 32K to 288K
Maximum IPv4 Host Routes 32K to 288K
Maximum IPv6 Host Routes 16K to 104K
Maximum IPv4 Unicast Route Prefixes 16K to 144K
Maximum IPv6 Unicast Route Prefixes 8K to 77K*
Maximum Multicast Groups 288K with 8K unique groups
ACLs 4K to 128K
Maximum LAG Members Up to 64 member ports
Maximum LAG Groups Up to 1024
Maximum ECMP Fanout 64-way

Arista 7300X3 Series Technical Specifications

The Arista 7300X3 Series modular switches provide industry leading 40/100G density and performance. The 7300 Series, with the third generation 7300X3 Series line cards, increase the scalability and performance of the 7300X Series supporting leaf / spine and SplineTM applications for collapsed data center tiers, and campus roles. Available as a choice of 8 slot and 4 slot systems they combine wirespeed forwarding with comprehensive L2 and L3 features.

The 7300X3 Series supports high density layer 2/3/4 wirespeed performance linecards that offer a flexible combination of interface speeds including 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G to design large leaf and spine networks for scale-out of east-west traffic patterns with low latency and power efficiency to enable seamless migration from 10/40G to 25/100G solutions. In addition, 7300X3 series support advanced features for extensive automation and programmability, network monitoring, precision timing and network virtualization to deliver secure high performance for an open, software driven approach to cloud networking.

Arista 7300X3 Series For Cloud And Enterprise

7300X3 Specifications

System Performance:

The Arista 7300X3 systems can be fully populated with up to eight or four linecards respectively

  7308X3 7304X3
Description An 8 slot system with scalable density and performance for server or network rows Compact high density and resilient 100G system with flexible interface speeds
Switching Capacity 50 Tbps 25 Tbps
Linecards 8 4
Maximum 100G Ports 256 128
Maximum 40G Ports 256 128
Maximum 10G Ports 1024 512
Maximum 25G Ports 1024 512
Maximum 50G Ports 512 256
L2/L3 PPS 32 Bpps 16 Bpps
Total Buffer 512 MB 256 MB
Rack Units 13 8

Linecard Specification

  7300X3-32C 7300X3-48YC4
Ports 32 QSFP100 48 25G SFP 4 QSFP100
100G Interfaces 32 (QSFP100) 4 (QSFP100)
40G Interfaces 32 (QSFP+) 4 (QSFP+)
10G Interfaces 128 64
25G Interfaces 128 64
50G Interfaces 64 8
Packet Buffer 64 MB 32 MB
Nominal Power 219 W 192 W
Maximum IPv4/v6 Host Routes 168K / 104K
Maximum IPv4 Unicast Route Prefixes 384K
Maximum IPv6 Unicast Route Prefixes 256K
Maximum Multicast Groups 104K with 16K unique groups
Ingress / Egress ACLs 2K / 1K
Maximum LAG Members Up to 64 member ports
Maximum LAG Groups Up to 1024
Maximum ECMP Fanout 128-way