arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs juniper QFX Series QFX5110-48S
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 QFX5110-48S is a 1U datacenter leaf switch engineered for 10GbE server access and 100GbE uplink connectivity.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | juniper QFX Series QFX5110-48S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Feb 2017 |
| 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 10GbE SFP+ and 4x 100GbE QSFP28 / 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks |
| Switching capacity | — | 1.76 Tbps / 1.31 Bpps forwarding capacity |
| Overlays | — | Hardware-accelerated EVPN-VXLAN Layer 2 and Layer 3 gateway support |
| Os architecture | — | Junos OS with enhanced memory capacity for large BGP and routing tables |
| Power supplies | — | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power modules |
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