HPE and Arista share a common vision around the need to deliver secure hybrid IT solutions and experiences built on industry‑ leading software-defined infrastructure—helping customers to operate their workloads with speed and agility to grow their business. This partnership will provide our customers with proven networking solutions that are superior to legacy alternatives and that complement HPE compute, storage, virtualization and cloud offerings.
The Arista 7050SX switches are members of the Arista 7050X series and key components of the Arista portfolio of data center switches. The Arista 7050X series are purpose-built 10/40GbE data center switches in compact and energy efficient form factors with wire speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 features combined with low latency and advanced features for software-defined cloud networking.
Increased adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers, coupled with applications using higher bandwidth, is accelerating the need for dense 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switching. The 7050SX series switches support flexible combinations of 10G and 40G that allow customers to design large leaf and spine networks to accommodate both east-west traffic patterns found in modern data centers, high performance compute, and big data environments.
Featuring a choice of seven different 1RU and two 2RU models, the 7050SX series delivers high density 1/10G SFP+ based ports and 10/40G ports using QSFP+. Or embedded optics with MXP multi-speed ports for higher density. Each MXP port can enable a choice of 3x 40GbE or 12x 10GbE.
All models in the 7050SX series deliver rich Layer 2 and Layer 3 features with wire speed performance of up to 2.56 Tbps. The Arista 7050SX switches offer low latency from 550ns in cut-through mode, and a shared packet buffer pool of up to 16MB that is allocated dynamically to ports that are congested. With typical power consumption of less than 2 watts per 10GbE port, the 7050SX series provides industry-leading power efficiency with airflow choices for back-to-front, or front‑to-back. An optional builtin SSD supports advanced logging, data captures, and other services directly on the switch.
Combined with Arista EOS, the 7050X series delivers advanced features for big data, cloud, and virtualized and traditional designs
