CCS-720XP Campus Switches

The Cognitive Management Plane (CMP) in Arista’s EOS provides rich control and telemetry APIs used to simplify and automate the deployment, and maintenance of campus infrastructure while also providing real-time monitoring of campus users, applications and devices. As with all Arista platforms, EOS supports auto provisioning by way of Arista Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) to simplify device administration through CloudVision, or popular DevOps toolsets. In addition to legacy polling management, EOS CMP delivers real time telemetry to administrators using open GRPC/GNMI APIs used in OpenConfig, allowing administrators to create custom management tools.

The Arista 720XP series runs the same Arista EOS software as all Arista products, simplifying network administration. Arista EOS is a modular switch operating system with a unique state sharing architecture that cleanly separates switch state from protocol processing and application logic. Built on top of a standard Linux kernel, all EOS processes run in their own protected memory space and exchange state through an in-memory database. This multi-process state sharing architecture provides the foundation for in-service-software updates and self-healing resiliency. With Arista EOS, advanced monitoring and automation capabilities such as Zero Touch Provisioning, VMTracer and Linux based tools can be run natively on the switch.
Arista’s common binary EOS provides a comprehensive, standards based, layer 2 and 3 feature set that includes EVPN virtualization and QoS services. EOS supports standards based 802.1X access control, and LLDP device identification services to automate admission and segmentation of users, appliances, plus all mission critical voice, video and general purpose applications in the campus. Together, Arista’s family of switching and WiFi platforms are managed through a single Cognitive Campus management plane in CloudVision, providing sub-second real time telemetry, database archival and automated analytics to manage and monitor the infrastructure, users and applications in the Campus-Cloud Network.