Arista 720D Series Cognitive Campus POE Leaf Switches

Designed for the demands of the interconnected IoT enabled campus, the 720D series delivers wirespeed connectivity for all campus user workloads under the management and monitoring of Arista cognitive campus services. The product family provides a range of PoE and data-only (non PoE) systems. The suite of platforms offer a variety of connection options for user desktops, POE appliances and IoT devices as well as data only options for the networks. The broad choice of platforms provides flexibility in scale and performance and at the same time, provides single pane of management and visibility.

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 720D Advantages:

  • Providing options for 10M to 2.5G copper PoE downlink and 10G SFP+
  • Providing options for 10M to 2.5G copper data-only downlink and 10G SFP+
  • Providing options for 100M to 1G fiber data-only downlink and 25G SFP28
  • Industry standard 802.1Q, VRFs and VXLAN/EVPN segmentation
  • Cognitive real time Flow Trackers for CloudVision, IPFIX and sFlow
  • 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, 1G and 2.5G with up to 60W 802.3bt
  • SFP and SFP28 modules supporting 1, 10 and 25G
  • Wire speed architecture
  • Compact, 1RU rack mountable. Only 12.5”/31.75cm deep

Campus optimized reliability and efficiency

  • N+1 cooling
  • Fixed Power Supply and Fans with redundancy
  • Persistent POE on reboot
  • Priority power assignment
  • Less than 175W power for switching (excluding POE)

Arista EOS

  • Common OS for all Arista platforms
  • Field proven reliability
  • Fault Isolating, Self healing
  • In service updates
  • Smart System Upgrades
  • Extensive APIs

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 720 Series Technical Specifications

The following table compares the capabilities of the 720 series campus switches

Specifications (PoE)
Feature/Model 720DP-24S
720DP 24S Campus Network Switch
720DP-48S
720DP 48S Campus Network Switch
720DP-24ZS
720DP 24ZS Campus Network Switch
720DP-48ZS
720DP 48ZS Campus Network Switch
Ports 24 RJ45
4 SFP+
48 RJ45
4 SFP+
24 RJ45
4 SFP+
48 RJ45
4 SFP+
10M-1G PoE+ (30W 802.3af/at) 24 48
100M-2.5G PoE+ (60W 802.3bt) 24 48
10G SFP+ Ports 4 4 4 4
Throughput (FDX) 64 (128 Gbps) 88 (176 Gbps) 100 (200 Gbps) 160 (320 Gbps)
Packets/Second 95 Mpps 131 Mpps 149 Mpps 238 Mpps
Latency (RJ-45) 1.2 microseconds
CPU Dual-Core x86
System Memory 4 GB 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB
System Flash 8 GB 8 GB 8 GB 8 GB
Packet Buffer 2 MB 4 MB 8 MB 8 MB
USB Ports 1 1 1 1
Console Ports 1 1 1 1
100M/1G Mgmt. port 1 1 1 1
Airflow Front to rear Front to rear Front to rear Front to rear
Size (WxHxD) 17.3 x 1.71 x 16.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 43.0 cm)
17.3 x 1.71 x 16.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 43.0 cm)
17.3 x 1.71 x 16.5 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 42.0 cm)
17.3 x 1.71 x 16.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 43.0 cm)
Weight 12.8 lbs (5.81 kg) 14.83 lbs (6.73 kg) 12.8 lbs (5.81 kg) 17.63 lbs (8 kg)
Cooling Fans 3 4 4
Power Supply 2 2 2 2
EOS License Group LIC-FIX-G
Minimum EOS 4.28.2F 4.29.1F 4.29.2F TBD
 
Specifications (Data Only)
Feature/Model 720DT-24S
720DT-24S Campus Network Switch
720DT-48S
720DT-48S Campus Network Switch
720DF-48Y
720DF-48Y Campus Network Switch
Ports 24 RJ45 4 SFP+ 48 RJ45 4 SFP+ 48 SFP 4 SFP28
10/100/1000Base-T (Data Only) 24 48
1G SFP Ports * 48
10G SFP+ Ports 4 4
25G SFP28 Ports 4
Throughput (FDX) 64 (128 Gbps) 88 (176 Gbps) 148 (296 Gbps)
Packets/Second 95 Mpps 131 Mpps 220 Mpps
Latency (RJ-45) 1.2 microseconds
CPU Dual-Core x86
System Memory 4 GB 8 GB 4 GB
System Flash 8 GB 16 GB 8 GB
Packet Buffer 2 MB 4 MB 2 MB
USB Ports 1 1 1
Console Ports 1 1 1
100M/1G Mgmt. port 1 1 1
Airflow Front to rear Front to rear Front to rear
Size (WxHxD) 17.3 x 1.71 x 12.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 32.7 cm)
17.3 x 1.71 x 12.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 32.7 cm)
17.3 x 1.71 x 12.9 inches
(44.0 x 4.4 x 32.7 cm)
Weight 9.6 lbs (4.36 kg) 10.22 lbs (4.64 kg) TBD
Cooling Fans 2 2 3
Power Supply 2 2 2
EOS License Group LIC-FIX-G
Minimum EOS 4.28.2F 4.29.1F 4.29.0F

* 100Base-T is supported with 1G-TX transceiver. 100-FX and other transceivers are not supported.

Scale 720DP-24S and 720DT-24S 720DP-48S and 720DT-48S
Ingress/Egress ACLs (IPv4 Security ACLs) 2K/512 4K/1K
MAC Addresses 32K 64K
IPv4/IPv6 Hosts 16K/8K 32K/16K
IPv4/IPv6 Routes 8K/2K 16K/6K
ECMP 64-way 64-way
IGMP Groups Up to 2K Up to 4K
LACP 8 ports/channel
MLAG  16 ports/interface
 
Scale 720DP-24ZS, 720DP-48ZS and 720DF-48Y
Mode Mode 0 Mode 1 Mode 2† Mode 3 Mode 4
MAC Addresses 112k 96k 64k 32k 16k
IPv4 Host Routes 16K 32k 64K 96k 16k
IPv4 LPM Routes 16K 16K 16K 16K 144K
IPv6 LPM Routes 8K 8K 8K 8K 72K
IGMP Groups 4K
IPv4 Multicast Groups 8K
ACL Entries (Ingress/Egress) 7.6K/1K
LACP 64 ports/channel
MLAG 128 ports/interface