7050X3 Series - Arista Networks

Industry-Leading Performance, Power-Efficiency, and High Availability

Highly dynamic cloud and enterprise data center networks continue to expand bringing with them ever-increasing bandwidth demands, accelerating the need for dense 25 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switching in both leaf and spine tiers of networks. The Arista 7050X3 are members of the Arista 7050X Series and key components of the Arista portfolio of data center switches. The Arista 7050X Series are purpose-built data center switches in compact and energy efficient form factors with wire speed layer 2 and layer 3 features combined with low latency and advanced EOS features for software-defined cloud networking.

Combined with Arista EOS, the 7050X3 can be deployed in a wide range of open networking solutions including large-scale layer 2 and layer 3 cloud designs, overlay networks, virtualized or traditional enterprise data center networks.

The 7050X3 supports a flexible combination of speeds including 10G, 25G, 40G, and 100G in compact form factors that allow customers to design networks to accommodate the myriad different applications and east-west traffic patterns found in modern data centers whilst providing investment protection.

The 7050X3 supports a rich set of EOS features that are already supported on other Arista X-Series systems. Operational and feature consistency lowers the qualification time and enhancements include Single Pass VXLAN Routing for network segmentation, Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) for optimized path selection, and the addition of Network Address Translation (NAT).

High-Performance 10/25/40/100GbE leaf-spine

• High-density wire-speed 10G, 25G, and 100G
• Up to 6.4Tbps of system capacity
• High-density 25G IEEE compliant
• Latency from 800nsec port to port
• Dual-mode 10/25G support for seamless migration to the next generation of Ethernet

Optimized for DC Designs

• Unified forwarding tables for configurable table scalability
• Fully shared 32MB packet buffer optimized for lossless networks
• Consistent cabling for 10G to 25G and 40G to 100G migrations
• Up to 128 Way Multi-Pathing over L2 and L3
• Power-efficient for the lower total cost of ownership
• Redundant and hot-swap power and cooling

Advanced Traffic Control, Provisioning, and Monitoring *

• CloudVision for Workflow Automation and Orchestration
• LANZ for Microburst Detection
• VXLAN and EOS Network Tracers
• Open Extensibility and Programmability
• Software Driven Cloud Networking
• Dynamic Load Balancing
• Network Address Translation

High Availability

• Redundant and hot-swap power and cooling
• Reversible airflow options for hot and cold aisle
• Smart System Upgrade with Hitless Software Upgrade *
• Self-healing stateful fault repair (SFR)
• Resilient ECMP and LAG Hashing
• MLAG ISSU
• Hitless Speed Changes

The 7050X3 Series enables highly scalable two-tier network designs with ECMP, MLAG, and VXLAN technologies.

MLAG Spine - All Active Multipath for Layer 2

• Standards-based protocol (LACP)
• Simplified or eliminates Spanning Tree topology
• Simple to understand and easy to engineer traffic

128 Way - All Active Multipath for Layer 3

• 128 Way Equal and Unequal Cost Multi-Pathing (UCMP) for flexible traffic balancing
• Standards-based protocol (OSPF, BGP)
• Eliminates L2 for exceptional scalability and fault tolerance
• Exceptional scale with consistently low latency and high performance in 2 tiers

VXLAN Layer 2 over Layer 3 - Best of Both Worlds

• All active multipath using ECMP (up to 128-way)
• Single L3 network for all applications
• L2 extensions for stateful VM - VM over Layer 3
• Extends L2 with exceptional scalability (16M Virtual NWs)
• Cloudburst over public infrastructure

The Arista 7050X3 series are non-blocking 10/25G and 100G data center switches in compact and energy efficient form factors with wire-speed layer 2 and layer 3 features. They combine scalable L2 and L3 resources with a flexible switch architecture that supports multiple overlay technologies and advanced encapsulations.

The 7050X3 offers 10G and 25G using the familiar RJ45 and SFP connections and 100G with widely deployed QSFP interfaces for flexible port speed choices providing unparalleled flexibility and the ability to seamlessly transition data centers to the next generation of Ethernet performance. The 7050X3 Series provides industry-leading power efficiency with data center optimized airflow. Combined with Arista EOS the 7050X3 Series delivers advanced features ideally suited for large Enterprises, big data and machine learning environments, traditional and virtualized data centers, and Service Provider edge networking roles.

At the core of the 7050X3 series is a 6.4Tbps packet processor that provides high performance and large scale IP routing tables and a full shared 32MB intelligent buffer.

The following table compares the different 7050X3 Series models.

Arista 7050X3 Series Model Comparison

	7050CX3-32S	7050CX3M-32S	7050SX3-96YC8	7050SX3-48YC12	7050SX3-48YC8	7050SX3-48C8	7050TX3-48C8
Switch Height	1RU	1RU	2RU	1RU	1RU	1RU	1RU
Ports	32 x 100G QSFP 2 x 10G SFP	32 x 100G QSFP 2 x 10G SFP	96 x 25G SFP 8 x 100G QSFP	48 x 25G SFP 12 x 100G QSFP	48 x 25G SFP 8 x 100G QSFP	48 x 10G SFP 8 x 100G QSFP	48 x 10G RJ45 8 x 100G QSFP
Maximum 100G Ports	32	32	8	12	8	8	8
Maximum 50G Ports	64	64	16	24	16	16	16
Maximum 40GbPorts	32	32	8	12	8	8	8
Maximum 25G Ports	128	128	128	96	56	8	8
Maximum 10G Ports	128	128	128	96	56	56	56
L2/L3 Throughput	6.4 Tbps	6.4 Tbps	6.4 Tbps	4.8 Tbps	4.0 Tbps	2.56 Tbps	2.56 Tbps
L2/L3 PPS	2 Bpps	2 Bpps	2 Bpps	2 Bpps	1 Bpps	1 Bpps	1 Bpps
Latency	800ns	800ns	800ns	800ns	800ns	800ns	3usec
Typical Power Draw	192W	398W	218W	179W	124W	124W	212W
AC and DC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Total System Buffer	32MB	32MB	32MB	32MB	32MB	32MB	32MB
CloudVision	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Smart System Upgrade *	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ZTP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
VM Tracer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
AEM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
VXLAN Routing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LANZ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DLB *	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NAT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hitless Speed Changes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Airflow	F/R or R/F	F/R or R/F	F/R or R/F	F/R only	F/R or R/F	F/R or R/F	F/R or R/F

* Not yet supported in EOS

* All resource values are maximum hardware capacity 

10/25/40/100G MACsec

Implementing cost-effective and high-performance bulk data encryption at scale is a major challenge for today’s cloud data centers. The Arista 7050X3M MACSec systems are flexible, high performance, power-efficient 1RU switches with built-in wire-speed encryption, designed to meet the needs of the largest scale data centers.

The 7050X3 MACSec systems utilize proven, standards-based encryption technology (IEEE 802.1AE MACsec) to provide secure communication for links between tiers in leaf and spine data center designs, data center interconnects (DCI), overlay networks, and virtualized or traditional enterprise networks connecting to existing and next-generation systems with a choice of interface speeds.

Key Benefits:

• Provides high-performance L2 and L3 features with wire-speed MACsec encryption in a compact, 1RU form factor.
• Eliminates the need for external encryption devices.
• Flexible configuration of MACsec on any interfaces
• Range of interface speeds from 10G to 100G allowing up to 128 ports in a single system.
• Secure communication for a wide range of applications from large-scale leaf and spine networks to datacenter interconnect.

Key Features:

• Up to 6.4Tbps of wire speed L2 and L3 IP forwarding
• IEEE 802.1AE MACsec encryption on all QSFP ports
• 128-way ECMP and 64-way MLAG to provide scalable designs and balance traffic evenly across large scale 2 tier leaf-spine designs
• Pluggable 100G and 40G QSFP optics for pay as you grow expansion
• High Availability with hot-swap power supplies and fans
• Choice of AC or DC and forward or reverse airflow

Have more questions about Arista Networks Cloud Switching and Routing products and solutions? Call us at 410-583-1701 or email us at questions@pulsesupply.com.