arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX
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 93180YC-FX is an enterprise 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports |
| Uplink ports | 8x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | 6x 40G/100G QSFP28 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 | — | 3.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth |
| Forwarding rate | — | Up to 2.6 Bpps |
| Storage networking | — | Supports native Fibre Channel (16G/32G) and FCoE on downlink ports |
| Operating modes | — | Cisco NX-OS Mode or Cisco ACI Leaf Mode |
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