An Introduction to the Arista 7130E Series

The Arista 7130E Series supports three Xilinx UltraScale™+ FPGAs in a one rack unit (RU) form factor. The UltraScale™/UltraScale™+ series from Xilinx used in the 7130E devices are a significant step forward from previous solutions. The 7130E Series features 48 10GbE SFP+ ports. Each device comes with a full Layer 1 switch fabric and contains a range of management and monitoring features including: per-port Ethernet statistics, monitoring telemetry and an x86 processor running MOS or EOS, a Linux-based operating system, offering enterprise-grade device and application management. When ordered with three FPGA’s, there are multiple dedicated communication paths between the FPGAs and the Ethernet network offering flexibility and the ability to optimise communication latency. As there are currently a number of permutations of the 7130E Series with slightly different physical characteristics, the characteristics described below refer to the 7130-48E variant (i.e.: 48-port, 1 RU devices with either 3 Ultrascale or Ultrascale + FPGAs).