Guide price: Price range: £13,845.84 through £25,051.93 Ex. VAT
The Arista DCS-7280SR3-48YC8 series provides a balanced blend of 25 GbE access density and 100 GbE uplink capacity, engineered for modern cloud, enterprise and data-centre fabrics. These switches support mixed-speed environments while delivering Arista’s EOS flexibility, making them suitable for both leaf and aggregation layers in scalable networks.
Ideal deployment/environment: Dense server racks, hyperconverged clusters or storage-heavy environments using 25 GbE/10 GbE server links with 100 GbE uplinks. Well suited as leaf or ToR switches in leaf-spine fabrics, giving flexible port speeds, high throughput and full-featured EOS routing/overlay capabilities without overprovisioning.
| These models all include Arista's standard EOS. Optional licenses are also available, including: | ||
|---|---|---|
| LIC-FIX-2-E | Enables enhanced Layer-3: BGP, OSPF, ISIS, PIM, NAT, and more. | |
| LIC-FIX-2-V | Adds virtualisation support, including VMTracer and VXLAN. | |
| LIC-FIX-2-V2 | EOS Extensions / Security / Partner-Integration features for Group 2 switches. | |
| LIC-FIX-2-Z | Monitoring & automation features (ZTP, LANZ, TapAgg, API, OpenFlow, etc.) for Group 2 Arista switches. | |
| LIC-FIX-2-FLX-L | FLX-Lite: full routing (up to 256 K routes), EVPN / VXLAN / SR / basic MPLS LSR. |
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