arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs juniper EX Series EX4650
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 Juniper EX4650 is a high-density 1U campus distribution, core, and datacenter top-of-rack switch delivering 48 ports of 10G/25G SFP28 and 8 ports of 40G/100G QSFP28.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | juniper EX Series EX4650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Nov 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 | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 and 8x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Switching capacity | — | 2 Tbps / 1.49 Bpps wire-speed forwarding performance |
| Overlays | — | Hardware-accelerated EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric and datacenter interconnect |
| Stacking | — | Virtual Chassis technology connecting up to four EX4650 units |
| Management | — | Junos OS with telemetry streaming, Python scripting, and Mist AI monitoring |
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