7300 Series

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Arista 7300 X-Series Introduction

The Arista 7300 Series are the benchmark for performance, scale and power
efficiency in modular data center switches. Increased adoption of 10G servers is
accelerating the need for flexible, dense 10GbE/40GbE solutions. The Arista 7300
Series extends the industry leading 7000 Series with increased performance,
scalability, density and features designed for software defined networking.

The Arista 7300 Series are a range of modular systems, a 4-slot and 8-slot, with a
choice of three 10GbE and 40GbE linecards for high performance, low latency
Arista 7300 Series and scalable multilayer switching powered by Arista EOS, the worlds most
advanced network operating system.

High Performance
• 20Tbps system capacity 7300 Deployment Scenarios
• Up to 15 billion packets per second
• Wire speed unicast & multicast Scale out network designs allow solutions to start small and expand over time;
• Class leading latency simple highly scalable one and two-tier network designs are built with MLAG,
• High density 10G/40G ECMP and VXLAN technologies.
• 12MB buffer per port group
Cloud Networking: 2-tier Leaf/Spine or 1-tier Collapsed Spine
• Under 12W per 40G port
Spline™ Layer 2 / MLAG Layer 3 / ECMP L2 over Layer 3
VXLAN

Feature Rich
• High Availability
• DC optimized airflow
• Rich L2 and L3 features
• 64-Way MLAG Servers Middle of Row Servers

• 64-Way ECMP Servers Servers Servers

• VXLAN gateway The 7300 Series are ideal for a number of deployment scenarios inside the data
• Zero Touch Provisioning center. With a choice of three systems each capable of 10G and 40G they are
• Hitless MLAG ISSU ideal for use as a single tier collapsed leaf and spine or at both the leaf and spine
layers of two-tier networks. The Arista universal network architecture is
High Scalability optimized for all application types ranging from large cloud to enterprise
• System scalability deployments. The following are a selection of use cases:
• 256 x 40G
• 1024 x 10G • Collapsed Spline™ server access as middle of row or end of row supporting full
• 384 x 10G-T and 32 x 40G range of 1G, 10G and 40G connection options
• Scalable Spline designs
• Leaf-Spine — open standards based L2 and L3 with monitoring and visibility
• MAC 288K / IPv4 Hosts 208K
features — LANZ, DANZ, Tracers
• Routes: 16K IPv4 / 8K IPv6
• UFT – IPv4/v6 144K/77K • ECMP designs up to 64-way — cost-effective 8 way multi-pathing using open
protocols and 7050X or 7060X as spine and 64-way using 7300X
• Software Defined Networking — with support for OpenFlow, DirectFlow, eAPI
Advanced Monitoring and VXLAN
• CloudVision • Enterprise modular switch with high availability features and choice of 40G
• LANZ microburst detection and 10G density up to 256 x 40G or 1024 x 10G and full L2 and L3 features
• DANZ advance monitoring
• Grid / HPC — designs requiring cost effective and power efficient systems to
• AEM proactive management
enable non-blocking or minimal over-subscription
• sFlow for network visibility
• SSD for local monitoring • Spine for hadoop and big data applications with east-west connectivity
• VM Tracer integration • Directly connected 40GbE attached storage – dense NFS systems, requiring
• RAIL for Big Data and Hadoop high performance and predictable latency

Arista 7300: High performance, low latency, advanced visibility and open extensibility
 7300 Series
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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.

7300 Series Systems

Arista 7300 Series support redundant hot-swappable power supplies, fabric and fan redundancy, EOS high availability, a choice of
L2 and L3 multi-pathing designs and powerful EOS innovations for visibility, application level performance monitoring and
virtualization.

Feature Description
CloudVision Network-wide workflow automation and workload orchestration as a turnkey solution for Cloud Networking

Wirespeed VXLAN Gateway Seamless integration between VXLAN and L2/L3 environments, physical and virtualized networks

Smart System Upgrade Optimized SW upgrades to reduce the impact of software upgrades and avoid network convergence

64-way ECMP and LAG Improve network scalability and balance traffic across large-scale leaf-spine designs or server load balancers

Latency Analyzer A solution to improve monitoring and visibility at both 10G and 40G for congestion from persistent or
microbursts.

Cloud Control Support for Openflow and OpenStack automation and self-service provisioning with cloud scale economics

Scalable Tables — 
 Flexible allocation of L2 and L3 forwarding table resources for greater design choice
ALPM and UFT

7308 7304
Linecards 8 4

10G RJ45 Ports 384 196

10G SFP Ports 384 192

Maximum 10G Ports 1024 512

40G Ports 256 128

Capacity 20Tbps / 15Bpps 10Tbps / 7.5Bpps

Total Buffer 192MB 96MB
Latency 2 µs 2 µs
Size 13RU 8RU

A choice of three linecards provide a wide range of interfaces:

7300X-32Q — 32 QSFP+ ports supports a flexible combination of 

128x 10GbE or up to a full 32x 40GbE ports.

7300X-64S — 48 SFP+ and 4 QSFP+ ports supports a flexible combination


of 48x 10GbE and 4x 40GbE or up to a full 64x 10GbE ports.

7300X-64T — 48 10G-T and 4 QSFP+ ports supports a flexible combination 


of 48x 100M/1G/10G and 4x 40GbE or 16x10GbE.
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Arista 7300: High performance, low latency, advanced visibility and open extensibility