Arista Cognitive Campus CCS-720XP Series Switches

The Arista CCS-720XP Series is a family of six multi-gigabit campus access switches spanning 1G, 2.5G, 5G, and 10G copper downlinks with PoE power levels up to 90W per port via 802.3bt. Switching capacity ranges from 400 Gbps on the 24-port 720XP-24Y6 through to 2.24 Tbps on the 96-port 720XP-96ZC2 and the 48-port 10G 720XP-48TXH-2C-S, covering small wiring-closet access deployments through high-density Wi-Fi 7 AP floors in a single model family. Uplinks scale from 6× 25G SFP on the 48Y6 and 24Y6 to a combination of 4× 25G and 2× 100G ports on the ZC2 and 48TXH models, providing proportionate uplink bandwidth as port count and per-port speed increase.

All 720XP models deliver 1.2 µs store-and-forward latency on RJ45 copper ports, matching latency expectations established by the campus 720D series at 1G. The 720XP-48Y6 reference configuration produces 294 Mpps at full 700 Gbps forwarding rate, and the platform family supports Arista EOS features including ZTP provisioning, CloudVision telemetry, gRPC/gNMI streaming, OpenConfig model alignment, and 802.1X per-port and per-VLAN access control. Multiple PSU options (650W, 1050W, 2000W, and 500W/700W DC) allow PoE budget to be matched to access-layer demand without changing switch hardware, and support for DC supply inputs makes the 720XP suitable for deployments powered from a UPS or DC bus rather than standard AC mains.