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
Feature/Model | 720DP-24S |
720DP-48S |
720DP-24ZS |
720DP-48ZS |
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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 |
Feature/Model | 720DT-24S |
720DT-48S |
720DF-48Y |
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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 |
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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 | ||||
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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 |