arista 7060X 7060DX4-32 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9332D-GX2B
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7060DX4-32 is a 1U 400GbE datacenter spine and leaf switch powered by the Broadcom Tomahawk 3 engine. The Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B is a compact 1U 400GbE datacenter spine and leaf switch powered by Cisco Cloud Scale GX2 silicon.
| arista 7060X 7060DX4-32 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9332D-GX2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Jun 2022 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Ports | 32x 400G QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) | 32x 400G QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) |
| Switching capacity | 25.6 Tbps / 10.6 Bpps forwarding rate | 25.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | 1U rack mount |
| Latency | Cut-through switching under 800 nanoseconds | — |
| Power supplies | Dual hot-swappable titanium-rated power supplies | — |
| Forwarding throughput | — | Up to 5.7 Bpps |
| Security | — | Line-rate MACsec-256 encryption standard across all ports |
| Workloads | — | Artificial intelligence clusters, cloud spine layers, and 400G datacenter fabrics |
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