Arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs Dell PowerEdge MX7116n
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 PowerEdge MX7116n is a zero-latency Fabric Expander Module engineered for secondary MX7000 chassis.
| Arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | Dell PowerEdge MX7116n | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| 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 | — |
| Internal ports | — | 16x 25GbE internal connections to blade sleds |
| Ports | — | 16x 25GbE internal links, 2x QSFP28-DD expander ports connecting to MX9116n |
| Switching capacity | — | Pass-through unmanaged repeater throughput |
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