Arista DCS-7280TR3-40C6-F | 7280R3 40-Port 10G RJ45 Switch Router, 6x 100G QSFP

Q: What is the primary use case for the DCS-7280TR3-40C6-F?
A: This switch router is designed for high-density data center leaf, spine, and aggregation layer deployments requiring 10GBASE-T server connectivity combined with 100GbE uplinks for modern spine-and-leaf architectures.

Q: What routing capabilities does this model support?
A: The 7280TR3-40C6-F supports Internet-scale routing with Arista FlexRoute engine, providing over 256K IPv4/IPv6 routes, full BGP/OSPF/IS-IS support, MPLS/SR-TE, and VXLAN/EVPN for advanced network virtualization and overlay networks.

Q: What is the significance of the -F suffix in the model number?
A: The -F suffix indicates front-to-rear airflow, which is designed to align with hot aisle/cold aisle data center cooling architectures. The corresponding -R model offers rear-to-front airflow for different cooling requirements.

Q: Can this switch be used in spine-and-leaf topologies?
A: Yes, the DCS-7280TR3-40C6-F is optimized for both leaf and spine roles in modern data center fabrics, with 40 x 10G ports for server connectivity at the leaf layer or 100G uplinks for spine interconnection.

Q: What management and monitoring features are included?
A: The switch includes CloudVision integration, Zero-Touch Provisioning, accelerated sFlow, LANZ latency analysis, DANZ monitoring, PTP timing, SNMP, REST API, and programmable automation via Python scripting on Arista EOS.