Arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7050SX3-48YC8 is a modern 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Broadcom Trident 3 switching engine. The Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX is a 1U data center switch featuring 48 100M/1G/10GBase-T ports and 6 40G/100G QSFP28 uplink ports.
| Arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | Cisco Nexus 93108TC-EX | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Cisco |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Mar 2016 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | 48x 100M/1G/10GBase-T copper ports |
| Uplink ports | 8x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | 6x 40G/100G QSFP28 optical ports |
| Switching throughput | 4.0 Tbps / 2.0 Bpps forwarding capacity | — |
| Latency | Cut-through switching from 800 nanoseconds | — |
| Packet buffer | 32MB fully shared packet buffer architecture | — |
| Datacenter features | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2, PFC, ECN, and sFlow | — |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 2.16Tbps throughput and 1.5 billion packets per second (bpps) |
| Architecture | — | Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC with 40MB shared buffer |
| Operating modes | — | Cisco NX-OS or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap AC or DC power supplies |
| Management | — | Cisco Nexus Dashboard, NX-OS CLI, and Cisco ACI Controller (APIC) |
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