Cisco vs. Arista Networks – Choosing Arista Could Save You $13.3 Million!

 

There's a new alternative to Cisco in the datacenter…it's called the Arista Networks 7500 series modular 10Gb ethernet switching platform.

 

 

 

The 7500 has 10 terabits per second of switching capacity and 384 wirespeed L2/L3 10GbE ports in only eleven rack-units.

 

The 7500 is five times faster, one-tenth the power draw per wirespeed port and one-half the footprint compared to other modular datacenter switches.

 

Tthe modern datacenter demands radically simpler network designs for large-scale server, storage, and cloud deployments. And it insists the simple two-tier design of Arista's 7500 spine switches and Arista leaf switches can support over 8,000 servers with over 100,000 cores. This enables predictable performance per server and low end-to-end latency.

 

When compared to Cisco and its other modular datacenter switch competitors, the Arista 7500 is receiving excellent recommendations from customers, analysts and technology partners.

 

The 7500 has true front-to-rear airflow without 'turning' the air in an 'S' shape like most other front-to-rear airflow systems do. By avoiding turns in the airflow you reduce turbulence and hot spots and can use a lower power fan to achieve the same cooling effect

 

Finally, perhaps the most compelling attribute of the new 7500, especially as it relates to Cisco, is the price to performance value delivered by the new 7500.

 

Arista commissioned the European Advanced Network Test Center to validate the performance of the Arista 7500 Series.

 

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