Saturday, June 8, 2019

Arista launches campus PoE switches

Anyone else been keeping an eye on this with great interest?

My only concern is their proposed alternative to stacking in the white paper appears to utilise the 8 mgig ports on the front at L2 to get a total of 10 access switches, with 2 in a MLAG configuration having uplinks to the distribution/spine. The other alternative would be to have groups of 5 utilising 25Gb ports between switches and 25Gb to the spine/distribution. This of course, assumes you do not have sufficient fibre/capacity to dual home each switch back. What are your thoughts on this design?

https://www.arista.com/en/products/720xp-series



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