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7500R3 Series Data Center Switch Router

The Arista 7500R3 Series of purpose built modular switches deliver the industry’s highest performance with 230 Tbps of system throughput to meet the needs of the largest scale data centers. They combine scalable L2 and L3 resources and high density with advanced features for network monitoring, precision timing and network virtualization to deliver scalable and deterministic network performance while simplifying designs and reducing Opex.

7500R3 Series Data Center Switch Router

The Arista 7500R3 Series of purpose built modular switches deliver the industry’s highest performance with 230 Tbps of system throughput to meet the needs of the largest scale data centers. They combine scalable L2 and L3 resources and high density with advanced features for network monitoring, precision timing and network virtualization to deliver scalable and deterministic network performance while simplifying designs and reducing Opex. The 7500R3 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. Deep packet buffers and large routing tables allow for internet peering and secure data center interconnect applications and provides complete deployment flexibility. Available in a compact system design, as a choice of 12, 8 and 4 slot, the Arista 7500R3 is the next generation of the 7500 Series and delivers seamless upgrades ensuring investment protection of fabric modules, line cards and supervisor modules while setting a new standard for performance, density, reliability, and power efficiency. The 7500R3 can support up to 288 ports of wire speed 400G and 576 ports of 100G and offers over 230 Tbps of total capacity with a broad choice of line cards. Standards based OSFP and QSFP-DD 400G, QSFP 100G and SFP 25G interfaces support a choice of speeds including 10G, 25G and 50G providing unparalleled flexibility and the ability to seamlessly transition data centers to the next generation of Ethernet performance. All components are hot swappable, with redundant supervisor, power, fabric and cooling modules with front-to-rear airflow. The system is purpose built for data centers and is energy efficient with typical power consumption of under 25 watts per 100G port for a fully configured chassis. These attributes make the Arista 7500R3 an ideal platform for building reliable and highly scalable data center networks.

7500R3 Series Data Center Switch Router overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set 7500R3 Series Data Center Switch Router apart.

System Scale and Performance

None

  • 230 Terabits per second fabric capacity
  • Up to 48 Billion packets per second
  • Up to 19.2 Terabit per second per slot
  • Up to 288 wire-speed 400G ports
  • 10G, 25G and 50G mode support
  • Deep packet buffer (16GB per line card)
  • Virtual Output Queues per port to eliminate head of line blocking
  • Under 4 microsecond latency (64 bytes)
  • AC and DC power options
  • Front-to-rear airflow for optimized cooling
  • 50W per 400G port typical power

High Availability Hardware

None

  • N+N Grid redundant power system
  • 1+1 Supervisor redundancy
  • Fabric module redundancy
  • N+1 Fan module redundancy

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Technical Specifications

Hardware and software metrics extracted directly from the official Arista datasheet.

  • Supervisor slots
    2
  • Linecard Slots
    12 (DCS-7512N), 8 (DCS-7508N), 4 (DCS-7504N)
  • Fabric Module Slots
    6
  • Power Supply Slots
    12 (DCS-7512N), 8 (DCS-7508N), 4 (DCS-7504N)
  • Physical Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7512N
    31.5 x 17.3 x 33.4” (80.1x44.1x 84.8 cm)
  • Physical Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7508N
    22.75x 17.3 x 31.3” (57.8x 44.1 x 79.5 cm)
  • Physical Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7504N
    12.25 x 17.3 x 31.3” (31.2 x 44.1 x 79.5 cm)
  • Rack Units DCS-7512N
    18
  • Rack Units DCS-7508N
    13
  • Rack Units DCS-7504N
    7

  • Model
    DCS-7512R3-FM, DCS-7508R3-FM, DCS-7504R3-FM
  • Redundancy
    Graceful degradation
  • Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7512R3-FM
    2.5 x 21 x 10.25” (6.4 x 53 x 26 cm)
  • Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7508R3-FM
    2.5 x 14 x 10.25” (6.4 x 35.6 x 26 cm)
  • Dimensions (HxWxD) DCS-7504R3-FM
    2.5 x 8.5 x 10.25” (6.4 x 21.6 x 26 cm)
  • Weight DCS-7512R3-FM
    26.75 lbs (12.2 kg)
  • Weight DCS-7508R3-FM
    13.25 lbs (6.0 kg)
  • Weight DCS-7504R3-FM
    7.5 lbs (3.4 kg)
  • Typical (Max) Power DCS-7512R3-FM
    505 W (760 W)
  • Typical (Max) Power DCS-7508R3-FM
    225 W (380 W)

  • Model
    7500R3-24P, 7500R3-24D, 7500R3-36CQ, 7500R3K-36CQ, 7500R3K-48Y4D
  • Ports 7500R3-24P
    24 OSFP
  • Ports 7500R3-24D
    24 QSFP-DD
  • Ports 7500R3-36CQ
    36 QSFP100
  • Ports 7500R3K-36CQ
    36 QSFP100
  • Ports 7500R3K-48Y4D
    48 SFP25, 4 QSFP-DD
  • Max 10G
    192 (7500R3-24P, 7500R3-24D), 96 (7500R3-36CQ, 7500R3K-36CQ), 80 (7500R3K-48Y4D)
  • Max 25G
    192 (7500R3-24P, 7500R3-24D), 96 (7500R3-36CQ, 7500R3K-36CQ), 80 (7500R3K-48Y4D)
  • Max 40G
    24 (7500R3-24P, 7500R3-24D), 36 (7500R3-36CQ, 7500R3K-36CQ), 4 (7500R3K-48Y4D)
  • Max 50G
    192 (7500R3-24P, 7500R3-24D), 72 (7500R3-36CQ, 7500R3K-36CQ), 32 (7500R3K-48Y4D)

  • Profile
    L3, L3-Traffic Policy, Balanced, L3-XL, L3-XXL, L3-XXXL, Balanced-XL
  • ARP Entries
    88k (L3, L3-Traffic Policy), 80k (Balanced), 112k (L3-XL, L3-XXL), 80k (L3-XXXL), 96k (Balanced-XL)
  • MAC Addresses
    224k (L3, Balanced), 192k (L3-Traffic Policy, L3-XXL), 256k (L3-XL, Balanced-XL), 384k (L3-XXXL)
  • IPv4 Unicast Routes
    1450k (L3), 800k (L3-Traffic Policy, Balanced), 2250k (L3-XL), 2850k (L3-XXL), 3950k (L3-XXXL), 1850k (Balanced-XL)
  • Additional IPv4 Unicast Routes with FlexRoute
    + 1792k (L3, Balanced), + 1536k (L3-Traffic Policy, L3-XXL), + 2048k (L3-XL, Balanced-XL), + 3072k (L3-XXXL)
  • IPv6 Unicast Routes
    433-483k (L3), 250-267k (L3-Traffic Policy, Balanced), 683-750k (L3-XL), 833-950k (L3-XXL), 1100-1317k (L3-XXXL), 567-617k (Balanced-XL)
  • Multicast Routes
    112k (L3, Balanced), 96k (L3-Traffic Policy, L3-XXL), 128k (L3-XL, Balanced-XL), 192k (L3-XXXL)
  • TCAM ACL Entries (Per chip)
    24k
  • Traffic Policy ACL IPv4 Prefixes
    30k (L3, Balanced, L3-XXXL), 561k (L3-Traffic Policy, L3-XL, Balanced-XL), 374k (L3-XXL)
  • Traffic Policy ACL IPv6 Prefixes
    10k (L3, Balanced, L3-XXXL), 187k (L3-Traffic Policy, L3-XL, Balanced-XL), 125k (L3-XXL)

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