Arista 720XPM Series Secure Cognitive Campus PoE Leaf Switches
Designed for the demands of the interconnected IoT enabled campus, the 720XPM series delivers wirespeed connectivity for all campus user workloads under the management and monitoring of Arista cognitive campus services. The suite of platforms offer a variety of connection options for user desktops, PoE appliances and IoT devices. The Arista Cognitive Campus CCS-720XPM series switches deliver wire speed connectivity with MACsec on all ports.
Arista’s cornerstone EOS® combines cognitive campus network features and state of the art merchant silicon to deliver critical services that automate deployment, configuration, visibility troubleshooting and security. The Arista cognitive campus architecture encompasses spline, leaf and wireless infrastructure platforms, telemetry and analytics, and a single image EOS that supports an expanding feature set and partner ecosystem of solutions.

Arista 720XPM Advantages:
- Providing options for 10M to 1G PoE copper downlink and 25G SFP28 and 10G SFP
- Industry standard 802.1Q, VRFs and VXLAN/EVPN segmentation
- Cognitive real time Flow Trackers for CloudVision, IPFIX and sFlow
- Integrated MACsec encryption on all ports
- Cognitive, cloud grade reliability, in service maintenance and upgrades
- EOS programmability and cognitive management plane monitoring APIs
Arista EOS delivers cloud grade QoS, security, and reliability that are required for campus networks.
The cognitive management plane, native in EOS, provides real time telemetry to capture key performance metrics of infrastructure, device, application and user data for SLA monitoring and troubleshooting.
Support various user, IoT and uplink connections:
- 10-100M and 1G with up to 90W 802.3bt
- SFP+ and SFP28 modules supporting 1, 10, 25G
- Wire speed architecture with up to 640Gbps of throughput
- Compact, 1RU rack mountable.
Arista EOS
- Common OS for all Arista platforms
- Field proven reliability
- Fault Isolating, Self healing
- In service updates
- Smart System Upgrades
- Extensive APIs
Campus optimized reliability and efficiency
- N+1 cooling
- Dual load sharing 1050W and 2000W power supply options
- Persistent PoE on reboot
- Priority power assignment
Cognitive Management Plane
- Hardware based real time telemetry
- Flowtracker monitors infrastructure, device, user and application flows
- CVP, IPFIX and SFlow APIs
- Inventorying and threat assessment capabilities
- Application support from third parties
Arista 720XPM Series Technical Specifications
| Feature/Model | 720XPM-48TH-6SY![]() |
|---|---|
| Ports | 48 RJ45 4x25G and 2x10G SFP |
| 10M-1G UTP (90W)1 | 48 |
| 10M-1G UTP (data only) | N/A |
| Max 10G ports | 6 |
| Max 25G ports | 4 |
| Throughput (2 way) | 336Gbps (MACsec: 50Gbps up, 50Gbps down) |
| Packets/Second (2 way) | 500 Mpps |
| Latency (RJ-45) | 1.2 microseconds |
| CPU | Dual Core-x86 |
| System Memory | 8GB |
| System Flash | 64GB |
| Packet Buffer | 4MB |
| USB Ports | 1 |
| Console Ports | 1 |
| 100M/1G Management port | 1 |
| Ingress / Egress Security ACL | 2K / 1K |
| MAC addresses | 64K |
| IPv4/v6 Hosts | 32K / 16K |
| IPv4/v6 Routes | 16K / 6K |
| ECMP | 64-way |
| STP Instances | 64 (MST)/254 (RPVST+) |
| IGMP Groups | up to 4K |

