arista 7150S-52 vs cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3548-X
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7150S-52 is a 1U ultra-low-latency datacenter switch providing 52 fixed ports of 1G/10GbE SFP+. The Cisco Nexus 3548-X is a premier 1U ultra-low-latency datacenter switch built with Cisco Algo Boost technology specifically designed for algorithmic trading and financial exchanges.
| arista 7150S-52 | cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3548-X | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Oct 2012 | Jun 2014 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Ports | 52x 1G/10GbE SFP+ ports | 48x 1G/10GbE SFP+ ports |
| Switching bandwidth | 1.04 Tbps / 780 Mpps | — |
| Latency | Sub-350 nanoseconds cut-through across all ports | Sub-250 nanosecond switching latency in Warp Mode |
| Timing | Hardware IEEE 1588 PTP clock with nanosecond timestamping | — |
| Security | Hardware line-rate Network Address Translation (NAT) | — |
| Switching capacity | — | 960 Gbps / 720 Mpps |
| Algo boost | — | Cisco Algo Boost ASIC technology with Warp Mode and Warp SPAN |
| Time stamping | — | Hardware IEEE 1588 PTP with nanosecond-level packet timestamping |
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