
Quick Look Datasheet
Arista 7500R Series Network Switch
High Performance
- 150Tbps system capacity
- Up to 69 billion packets per second
- Wire speed unicast & multicast
- Under 4us latency (64 byte)
- High density 10G/25G/40G/100G
- Ultra large buffer per 100G port
- Under 25W per 100G port
Feature Rich
- High Availability
- DC optimized airflow
- Rich L2 and L3 features
- 128-Way MLAG and ECMP
- VXLAN gateway and routing
- Zero touch provisioning
- Hitless MLAG ISSU
- Integrated wirespeed 802.1AE MACsec
High Scalability
- Up to 576 x 100G
- Up to 576 x 40G
- Up to 2304 x 25G
- Up to 2304 x 10G
- FlexRouteTM Engine
- 768K MAC/IPv4/IPv6 Hosts
- Over 2M IPv4/IPv6 Unicast LPM Routes
Scalable Architecture
- 100% efficient cell based fabric
- Deep packet buffer (24GB per line card)
- Up to 13,824 Virtual Output Queues per port to eliminate head of line blocking
- 9.6Tbps per slot fabric capacity
High System Availability
- Grid and PS redundant power system
- 1+1 Supervisor redundancy
- N+1 Fabric module redundancy
- N+1 Fan module redundancy
- Designed for NEBS
Advanced Monitoring
- CloudVision
- LANZ microburst detection
- DANZ advance monitoring
- AEM proactive management
- IEEE 1588 precision timing
- Accelerated sFlow for network visibility
- VM Tracer integration

Arista 7500R Series Modular Data Center Switches
Arista 7500R Series Introduction
Combining high density 10/40 and 100GbE with low latency and wire speed performance the Arista 7500R Series are designed for large virtualized data centers, internet peering, cloud networks and mission critical environments. A deep buffer VoQ architecture with large routing tables in a compact design delivers a highly scalable and power efficient system.The Arista 7500R Series FlexRoute Engine provides the flexible scalability to support deployment as a routing platform with Internet scale routing enabling innovation not natively available in merchant chipsets. With front-to-rear airflow, redundant and hot swappable supervisor, power, fabric and cooling modules the system is purpose built for high availability and continuous operations.
7500R Advantages
- Support for over 2,300 10Gb and 25Gb Ethernet ports - 2304 x 10G / 25G, 576 x 40G / 100G Ethernet interfaces
- Broad choice of compact to highly scalable chassis ranging from 16 slot to 4 slot systems
- Seamless investment protection with 7500E line cards, fabric and supervisor
- Streaming network state for advanced analytics with CloudVision
- Unique monitoring and provisioning features – LANZ, DANZ, AEM, PTP, ZTP, VM Tracer, VXLAN, and eAPI
- Comprehensive L2 and L3 feature set for open multi-vendor networks with no proprietary lock-in
- Scalable L2 and L3 table resources allow deployment flexibility in both large L2 and L3 environments and internet peering with any workload suitability
- AlgoMatchTM for flexible and scalable solutions for access control and network telemetry
- Network–wide virtualization platform for next generation cloud bursting with wire-speed VXLAN routing
- Directly connected 25GbE, 40GbE and 50GbE attached storage systems, requiring high performance and predictable latency
- Performance optimized DCI solution with line rate encryption with MACSec and coherent optics for long haul connectivity
Arista EOS
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.Feature | Description |
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CloudVision |
Network-wide workflow automation and workload orchestration as a turnkey solution for Cloud Networking |
DANZ Tap Aggregation |
10/40/100G Tap Aggregation with best-in-class performance and high density up to 576 100G Tap/Tool ports |
Wirespeed VXLAN Routing |
Seamless integration between VXLAN and L2/L3 environments, physical and virtualized networks |
Dynamic Deep Buffers |
Up to 24GB of packet memory per line card virtually eliminating packet drops in congestion scenarios |
FlexRoute |
Flexible scalability to support deployment as a routing platform with Internet scale routing |
sFlow Acceleration |
High sampling rate for advanced network telemetry, capacity planning and monitoring |
IEEE 1588 PTP |
Build and scale accurate timing solutions with sub-microsecond accuracy |
128-way ECMP & 128-way MLAG |
Improve network scalability and balance traffic across large-scale leaf-spine designs or server load balancers |
Latency Analyzer |
Microsecond utilization granularity using buffer watermarks for immediate feedback and precise monitoring |
Network Wide Virtualization |
Multi-vendor API Support with eAPI, VXLAN and NSX, and other encapsulation techniques |
Secure Encryption with MACsec |
Support for 802.1AE MACsec encryption on 100GbE ports for DCI and securing leaf and spine tiers |
7500R Deployment Scenarios
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Universal Spine
— Delivering high bandwidth with density, with resiliency, rapid convergence and large routing tables -
Internet Peering
— With support for large tables and rapid convergence the 7500R can be leveraged for both peering and DC -
Virtualized and Cloud Data Centers
— Largest scale, flexible interface choices, balanced resources, deep buffers and non-blocking performance coupled with a rich L2/L3 feature set and innovative provisioning and monitoring features -
High Performance Compute (HPC) and Research
— Low and predictable latency, non-blocking with high density 40G and 100G, precision timing, precision monitoring, and support for interface speeds including 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G -
Big Data and Hadoop
— High performance spine for east-west traffic patterns with advanced monitoring and traffic control features for deterministic performance -
IP Storage
— Storage requiring performance, deep buffers and predictable low latency in non-blocking system
The 7500R offers a choice of line cards, with consistent support for the full set of included features:

Arista Networks Line Cards
Line Card | 10G | 25G | 40G | 50G | 100G |
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7500R2AK-48YCQ1 | 48 + 8 | 12 + 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
7500R-48S2CQ | 48 + 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
7500R-36Q | 144 | 144 | 36 | 12 | 6 |
7500R2-18CQ1 | 72 | 72 | 18 | 36 | 18 |
7500R-36CQ 7500R2AK-36CQ1 7500R2A-36CQ1 7500R2-36CQ1 |
144 | 144 | 36 | 72 | 36 |
7500RM-36CQ | – | – | 36 | – | 362 |
7500R2M-36CQ | – | – | – | – | 362 |
7500R-8CFPX | – | – | – | – | 82 |
1 IEEE 25G Support 2 MACsec Support
Copyright © 2017 Arista Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. CloudVision, and EOS are registered trademarks and Arista Networks is a trademark of Arista Networks, Inc. All other company names are trademarks of their respective holders. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Certain features may not yet be available. Arista Networks, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document. June 19, 2017 11-0015-03