SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Arista Networks today announced the Arista 7500R Series, a switching and routing platform for cloud service provider and for next generation enterprise datacenters. Arista's Universal Spine architecture drives scale and agile workload mobility across public, private and hybrid clouds.

"The Arista 7500R allows Netflix to provide the ultimate user experience while keeping costs in check. Arista's continuous innovation has resulted in novel CDN (Content Delivery Network) architectures, offering breakthrough price/performance at 10x more bandwidth at 1/10th the price of a traditional router," said Dave Temkin, Vice President of Global Networks at Netflix.

Industry's First Switch & Router Combination for Cloud Networking
The Arista 7500R Series builds upon the very successful Arista's 7500E Series and provides unprecedented 100GbE density and large table sizes in a single chassis with appropriate investment protection. Key attributes of the modular form factor are:

New Spine Subsumes Core Functions
With the introduction of scalable two-tier active Leaf-Spine and single tier Spline options, Arista cloud network designs allow resilient and highly available access between applications inside a data center. With evolving traffic patterns, the traditional core routing layer can now be replaced with an Arista 7500R series-based spine for rapid re-convergence and network-wide resilience between data centers and to the Internet.

The Arista 7500R Series supports familiar MPLS functions allowing up to 13-labels deep packet lookup for programmatic control across the largest networks. Along with the state oriented architecture of Arista's Network–wide Database NetDB and SDK, Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System) users can customize their own preferred path across the largest networks in the world, instead of relying on best-effort forwarding on the Internet. Support for newer protocols including Segment Routing and EVPN allows for transitions to new-age traffic engineered networks without the overhead of legacy stacks.

The Arista 7500R Series challenges legacy network designs based on Places In the Network (PINs) silos for core, branch, data center and edge routing. It consolidates functions across the PINs with mega-scale universal spine while enhancing storage networks and edge router topologies.

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