arista 7050X 7050SX2-128 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93240YC-FX2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7050SX2-128 is an ultra-high-density 1.5U top-of-rack datacenter switch offering 96 ports of 10GbE SFP+ and 8 ports of 40GbE QSFP+. The Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2 is a high-density 1.2U top-of-rack datacenter switch designed for dense server clusters.
| arista 7050X 7050SX2-128 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93240YC-FX2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Sep 2015 | Jun 2018 |
| Form factor | 1.5U fixed switch | 1.2U fixed switch |
| Ports | 96x 10GbE SFP+ and 8x 40GbE QSFP+ ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 2.56 Tbps / 1.44 Bpps | — |
| Form factor | 1.5U rack mount | 1.2U rack mount with modular cooling |
| Features | Full Layer 2/3 forwarding, VXLAN gateway, Dynamic Buffer Sharing | — |
| Power supplies | Dual redundant hot-swappable power supplies | — |
| Downlink ports | — | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 ports |
| Uplink ports | — | 12x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Switching throughput | — | 4.8 Tbps / 3.57 Bpps forwarding capacity |
| Storage traffic | — | Unified storage support including FCoE and native 32G Fibre Channel |
| Security | — | Line-rate MACsec-256 on all ports |
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