Arista 7048

Arista 7048 is a wire-speed layer 2/3 switch with 48 1000 Mbps ports and four 1/10Gb Ethernet uplinks delivering up to 40 gigabits of interconnect capacity from the leaf to the spine layer of the network. Running the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), the 7048 is the industry’s first switch to support layer 4-7 capability with 3rd party integration of Citrix Systems NetScaler VPX load balancing and application security software.

Arista 7048 Overview

Non-Blocking 48 1000 Mbps (RJ-45) & four 1/10GbE uplinks (SFP+)
Layer 2/3 switching up to 176 Gbps and 120 Mpps
40 gigabits of interconnect capacity from leaf to the spine
Layer 4-7 Load Balancing and Application Security
1 rack unit (RU)
All ports can simultaneously buffer up to 50ms of traffic
Fair allocation of bandwidth with 8 virtual output queues per port for congestion management

Unlike typical top-of-rack switches on the market today, the Arista 7048 switch offers unprecedented buffering capability on every port in combination with a purpose built architecture for congestion management.