arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON
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 Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON is a top-of-rack open networking 1U switch engineered for 25GbE cloud data centers, high-density server fabrics, and modern storage clusters.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Mar 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U rack |
| 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 | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 25GbE SFP28 + 4x 100GbE QSFP28 + 4x 200GbE QSFP28-DD ports |
| Switching capacity | — | 4.0 Tbps (8.0 Tbps full duplex) |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-plug 750W AC or DC power supplies, normal or reverse airflow |
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