The Arista 7280 series has models with moderate amounts of high speed ports to go along with a larger number of lower speed ports, for example 7280CR3A-24D12 has 24x 100G and 12x 400G 7280CR3A-48D6 has 48x 100G and 6x 400G
/Jesper On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 at 15:44, Mike Hammett via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > *nods* Usually, I don't need lots of ports. Usually, just a few will do. > > That's the annoying thing: they usually come with (and I'm exaggerating to > avoid getting caught up in minutiae) two high-speed ports or 50, but rarely > six, eight, or ten. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Beecher" <[email protected]> > To: "North American Network Operators Group" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2025 6:52:56 AM > Subject: Re: Low Cost 400G?? > > > > > * Lots of ports > * Lots of FIB > * Cheap > > > Pick 2 > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM Mike Hammett via NANOG < > [email protected] > wrote: > > > Is it paradoxical to wonder what low-cost full table (or close to it) 400G > options there are? An earlier thread looks like the Arista 7280QR-C36 is > "almost" there for 100G at a reasonable $3k, but a quick look at > 400G-capable goes up, well, 4x in price, though one does get fully into DFZ > capable devices then. > > It seems like anything with more than low 6 digit route capability goes > into full-scale multi-million capability, which is great technically, but > not so great financially. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XZVYJ7UTXPKQAHM7SD5R5XMMQQKYOVNH/ > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EBIZEKLSRZXGS3IEYUAXJ4NL4QQO3VSW/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PSJM7GZSGBORYOBCWXSKBS5ZPIB3GSKG/
