Arista CCS-710P Compact Series Switches

The Arista CCS-710P Compact Series offers two fanless PoE switch models, the CCS-710P-12 and the CCS-710P-16P, designed for enclosed or acoustically sensitive campus spaces where a rack-mounted, fan-cooled switch would be impractical. The CCS-710P-12 provides 12 standard 1G RJ45 PoE ports at up to 30W each and two 10G SFP+ uplinks, while the CCS-710P-16P adds four multi-gigabit ports, an integrated PoE Powered Device input port that accepts up to 90W from an upstream PoE switch, and a dedicated mGig passthrough port. Both models draw power from an external AC power supply, available in 150W and 280W configurations, giving administrators flexibility to match the PSU wattage to the actual PoE load without over-provisioning hardware.

Forwarding tables sized at 32K MAC addresses, 16K IPv4 hosts, 8K IPv6 hosts, and 8K/2K IPv4/IPv6 routes provide adequate capacity for access-layer switch roles connecting endpoints in classrooms, open offices, small meeting rooms, and IoT device clusters. The 10G SFP+ uplinks support transceivers from 0.5 m DAC copper cables through to 40 km single-mode ER optics, making the 710P an appropriate first-hop switch for deployments that aggregate to a wiring-closet distribution switch over varying cable plant distances. Both models run Arista EOS, ensuring configuration consistency with the rest of a 710-series or 720-series campus environment.