Arista 7250X & 7300 Switch Architecture Whitepaper

The Arista 7250X and 7300 series are purpose built 10GbE/40GbE data center switches in four flexible energy efficient form factors, designed specifically to offer increased performance, scalability and density, without making any compromises to system availability, reliability or functionality. The 7250X and 7300 series combine cutting edge hardware developments with the award winning EOS software to offer wirespeed layer 2 and layer 3 forwarding, advanced features for software defined cloud networking and support for the next generation of protocols such as VXLAN. This white paper provides an overview of the switch architecture and the packet forwarding characteristics of the Arista 7250X and 7300 Series with X-Series linecards.