arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3
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-FX3 is a 1U top-of-rack data center switch providing 48 1/10/25GbE SFP28 downlink ports and 6 40/100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports with wire-rate MACsec and telemetry.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | — |
| Uplink ports | 8x 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 | — |
| Form factor | — | 1U rackmount |
| Ports | — | 48x 1/10/25GbE SFP28 + 6x 40/100GbE QSFP28 |
| Switching capacity | — | 3.6 Tb/s |
| Forwarding rate | — | 1.4 Bpps |
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