
Arista 7050Q
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Overview:
The Arista 7050 series 40G switches offer wire speed layer 2/3/4 performance with 16 ports of 40GbE or 64 ports of 10GbE in a compact 1RU chassis. The 7050Q-16 switch offers 16 QSFP+ interfaces and an additional 8 SFP+ ports shared with 2 QSFP+ ports for flexible support of 10GbE short and long reach interfaces.
Each QSFP+ supports wire speed 40GbE and can also operate as four independent 10GbE ports to provide a total of 64 10GbE ports. The Arista 7050Q offers latency of 800 ns in cut-through mode, and a shared 9 MB packet buffer pool that is allocated dynamically to ports that are congested. With typical power consumption of less than 3 watts per 10G port, the 7050Q 40G switches provide industry leading power efficiency for the data center. An optional built-in SSD supports advanced logging, data captures and other enhanced services directly on the switch.
The 7050Q switch shares a common architecture with other members of the Arista 7050 Series providing a consistent level of performance, scale and resilience. The 7050Q delivers line rate 40GbE performance enabling scale out of Leaf-Spine designs with 40GbE links between the tiers and direct connection to 40Gb servers and storage devices. The Arista 7050Q-16 provides scalability improvements in dense leaf and spine architectures with support for 40GbE for link aggregation and a reduction in link serialization delays.
Arista EOS
The Arista 7050Q switches run the same Arista EOS software as all Arista products, simplifying network administration. With Arista EOS, advanced monitoring and automation capabilities such as Zero Touch Provisioning, VM Tracer and Linux based tools can be run natively on the switch.
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. Several Linux based tools can be run directly on the switch, running on a powerful dual-core x86 CPU subsystem.
Product Highlights
Performance
Data Center Optimized Design
Cloud Networking Ready
Resilient Control Plane
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Built-in Storage
Advanced Provisioning & Monitoring
Arista Extensible Operating System
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Benefits:
High Availability

The Arista 7050 series switches were designed for high availability from both a software and hardware perspective. Key high availability features include:
- 1+1 hot-swappable power supplies and four N+1 hot-swap fans
- Color coded PSU’s and fans - common to Arista 1RU devices
- Live software patching
- Self healing software with Stateful Fault Repair (SFR)
- Up to 16 40GbE ports per link aggregation group (LAG)
- Multi-chassis LAG for active/active L2 multipathing
- 32-way ECMP routing for load balancing and redundancy
Dynamic Buffer Allocation

In cut-through mode, the Arista 7050 40G switches forward packets with a latency of 800 to 850 nanoseconds. Upon congestion, the packets are buffered in shared packet memory that has a total size of 9 MBytes. Unlike other architectures that have fixed per-port packet memory, the 7050 switches use Dynamic Buffer Allocation (DBA) to allocate up to 5MB of packet memory to a single port for lossless forwarding.
Provisioning Tools and Built-in Storage
The 7050 series switches offer advanced capabilities for network provisioning. With ZTP, the switch can be automatically provisioned through a centralized management system with a dynamically generated configuration and preferred boot image. A built-in 50GB SSD is available as an option from the factory. The integrated storage allows for a whole new family of applications that can be run from the network itself. This includes having the switch be a PXE boot server, store syslogs for audit and compliance right on the switch, capturing and saving data packets via tcpdump and Linux based services such as DHCP and Precision Time Protocol (PTP).
Cloud Network Scale: Up to 18,000 10GbE nodes using standardized protocols
Features:
Layer 2 Features
Layer 3 Features
Monitoring and Provisioning
VM Tracer Feature Set
Security Features
Quality of Service (QoS) Features
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Network Management
Extensibility
Standards Compliance
SNMP MIBs
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* Supported in a future software release
Specifications:
Table Sizes | ||
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MAC Addresses | 128,000 | |
STP Instances | 64 (MST)/511 (RPVST+) | |
IGMP Groups | 50,000 | |
ACLs | 3,000 | |
IPv4 Hosts | 32,000 | |
IPv4 Routes - Unicast | 16,000 | |
IPv4 Routes - Multicast | 8,000 | |
IPv6 Routes - Unicast | 8,000 | |
IPv6 Routes - Multicast | 4,000 | |
ECMP | 32-way | |
Environmental Characteristics | ||
Operating Temperature | 0 to 40C | |
Storage Temperature | -40C to 70C | |
Relative Humidity | 5 to 95% | |
Operating Altitude | 0 to 10,000 ft | |
Physical Characteristics | ||
Size (WxHxD) | 19” x 1.75” x 16” (44.5 x 4.4 x 40.64 cm) |
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Weight | 18 lbs (8.18 kg) | |
Power Supply Specifcations | ||
AC | DC | |
Input Voltage | 100-240AC | 40-72V DC |
Input Current | 2.2-5.3A | 12.8-7.1A 11.3A at -48V |
Input Frequency | 50/60Hz | DC |
Input Connector | IEC 320-C13 | AWG #16-12 |
Standards Compliance | ||
EMI | FCC Part 15 Class A ICES-003 Class A VCCI Class A |
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Safety | IEC/UL/CSA/EN 60950 CE, UL, TUV Mark |
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Other | ROHS-6 Compliant |
* Typical power consumption measured at 25C ambient with 50% load
Specifcations | |
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7050Q-16 | |
Ports | 16 x QSFP+, 8 x SFP+ |
Total 40GbE Ports | 16 |
Total 10GbE Ports | 64 |
Total 1GbE Ports | 8 (SFP/SFP+) |
Throughput | 1.28 Terabits/second |
Packets/Second | 960 Mpps |
Latency | 800 - 850ns (QSFP+) 800 - 1150ns (SFP+) |
CPU | Dual-Core x86 |
System Memory | 4 Gigabytes |
Flash Storage Memory | 2 Gigabytes |
Packet Buffer Memory | 9MB (Dynamic Buffer Allocation) |
SSD Storage (optional) | 50 Gigabytes |
100/1000 Mgmt Ports | 1 |
RS-232 Serial Ports | 1 (RJ-45) |
USB Ports | 1 |
Hot-swap Power Supplies | 2 (1+1 redundant) |
Hot-swappable Fans | 4 (N+1 redundant) |
Reversible Airfow Option | Yes |
Typical / Maximum Power Draw* | 192W / 303W |
Supported Optics and Cables | ||
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Interface Type | SFP+ ports | QSFP+ ports |
40GBASE-SR4 | - | 100m (OM3) /150m (OM4) |
40GBASE-XSR4 | - | 300m (OM3) /450m (OM4) |
AOC-40G-Q-Q | - | 3m to 100m |
40GBASE-CR4 | - | 0.5m to 7m QSFP+ to QSFP |
40G-PLRL4 | - | 1km (1km 4x10G LR/LRL) |
40G-UNIV | 150m (OM3) / 150m (OM4) 500m (SM) | |
40G-LRL4 | - | 1km |
40G-PLR4 | 10km (10km 4x10G LR/LRL) | |
40GBASE-LR4 | - | 10km |
10GBASE-CR | SFP+ to SFP: 0.5m-5m | 0.5m - 5m QSFP+ to 4x SFP |
10G-AOC | 3m to 30m | |
10GBASE-SRL | 100m | - |
10GBASE-SR | 300m | - |
10GBASE-LRL | 1km | - |
10GBASE-LR | 10km | - |
10GBASE-ER | 40km | - |
10GBASE-ZR | 80km | - |
10G-DWDM | 80km | - |
100TX 1G SX/LX/TX | Yes | - |
Documentation:
Download the Arista 7050Q Datasheet (PDF).
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