Arista 720XP Series Cognitive Campus POE Leaf Switches

Designed for the demands of the interconnected IoT enabled campus, the 720XP 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.

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 720XP Advantages:

  • Providing options for 10M to 10G PoE copper downlink and 25G SFP28 and 100G QSFP
  • 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

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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, 2.5G, 5G and 10G with up to 90W 802.3bt
  • SFP and QSFP modules supporting 1, 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100G
  • Wire speed architecture
  • Compact, 1RU rack mountable. Only 12.5”/31.75cm deep

Campus optimized reliability and efficiency

  • N+1 cooling
  • Dual load sharing 500W, 650W, 1050W and 2000W power supply options
  • 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 720XP Series Technical Specifications

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

  720XP-48Y6
720XP-48Y6
720XP-24Y6
720XP-24Y6
Ports 48 RJ45
6 25G SFP
24 RJ45
6 25G SFP
10M-1G UTP
(30W 802.3af/t)
48 24
100M-2.5G UTP
(30W 802.3af/t)
N/A N/A 
100M-2.5G UTP
(60W 802.3bt)
0 0
100M-5G UTP
(60W 802.3bt)
N/A N/A
SFP-25G 6 6
QSFP-100G N/A N/A
Throughput (FDX) 198 (396)Gbps 174 (348)Gbps
Packets/Second 294Mpps 259Mpps
Latency (RJ-45) 1.2 microseconds
CPU Dual Core-x86
System Memory 4GB
System Flash 8GB
Packet Buffer 8MB
USB Ports 1
Console Ports 1
100M/1G Management Port 1
Airflow Front-Rear
Rear-Front
Front-Rear
Rear-Front
 
  720XP-96ZC2
720XP-96ZC2
720XP-48ZC2
720XP-48ZC2
720XP-24ZY4
720XP-24ZY4
720XP-48TXH-2C-S
720XP-24ZY4
Ports 96 RJ45
4 25G SFP
2 100G QSFP
48 RJ45
4 25G SFP
2 100G QSFP
24 RJ45
4 25G SFP
48 RJ45
4 25G SFP
2 100G QSFP
100M-2.5G UTP
(30W 802.3af/t)
0 40 16 0
100M-2.5G UTP
(60W 802.3bt)
80 0 0 0
100M-5G UTP
(60W 802.3bt)
16 8 8 0
100M-10G UTP
(90W 802.3bt)
0 0 0 48
SFP-25G 4 4 4 4
QSFP-100G 2 2 N/A 2
Throughput (FDX) 580 (1160)Gbps 440 (880)Gbps 180 (360)Gbps 780 (1560)Gbps
Packets/Second 863Mpps 654Mpps 268Mpps 1160Mpps
Latency (RJ-45) 1.2 microseconds
CPU Dual Core-x86
System Memory 4GB 8GB
System Flash 8GB 16GB
Packet Buffer 16MB 8MB 8MB 8MB
USB Ports 1
Console Ports 1
100M/1G Management Port 1
Airflow Front-Rear Front-Rear Front-Rear Front-Rear
 

 

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