Arista Networks intros new modular switch for cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: Arista Networks announced 7500 E series modular switching platform.

The new E series switching platform provides fabric bandwidth at 30 terabits per second, packet buffer at 144 Gigabyte per switch, power efficiency at less than 4 watts per 10GbE port, has a triple-speed 10/40/100GbE line card and wirespeed VXLAN capability on every port, as per a release. Moreover, the new Arista 7500E offers 1,152 10GbE, 288 40GbE, or 96 100GbE wire-speed ports.

As per the company, it enables cloud networks to scale to over 1,00,000 servers and 1 million virtual machines while delivering a network architecture that can support cloud, big data, storage, Web2.0, and virtualization.

"The 7500E series is a major engineering achievement, offering the industry's highest throughput and three times the capability of the original Arista 7500 in every dimension - performance, density and power without a chassis upgrade," said Andreas Bechtolsheim, Arista's chairman and chief development officer. "It enables customers to build the world's largest switching infrastructures that handle the most demanding workloads with ease."

The Arista 7500E includes four new line cards for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet switching, including a triple-speed 10/40/100G line card with integrated MXP (multi-speed-port) optics that can be software configured on a per port basis.

It, together with Arista EOS, delivers a set of software defined networking capabilities that support programmatic control, monitoring, and self-healing resilience to various aspects of the switch, including:

Wirespeed VXLAN gateways that enable multi-tenant network virtualization,
Traffic monitoring with Arista LANZ, DANZ and Tap Aggregation
Rapid Automated Indication of Link-Loss (RAIL) for convergence in big data analytics and Hadoop applications
VM Tracer for network wide workload mobility and virtualization in VMware and OpenStack clouds
Distributed system health monitoring with real-time Health Tracer