Arista 720XP-24Y6 vs Cisco Catalyst 9300
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 720XP-24Y6 is a 1U cognitive campus access switch delivering 24 ports of Gigabit Ethernet with IEEE 802.3bt (up to 60W PoE) power delivery, 4 ports of 25GbE SFP28, and 2 ports of 100GbE QSFP28 uplinks. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch series is the primary stackable enterprise campus switching platform for security, IoT, mobility, and cloud connectivity.
| Arista 720XP-24Y6 | Cisco Catalyst 9300 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2020 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U modular switch |
| Access ports | 24x 10/100/1000BASE-T ports with 802.3bt Class 6 PoE (60W per port) | — |
| Uplinks | 4x 10G/25G SFP28 and 2x 40G/100G QSFP28 optical uplinks | — |
| Poe budget | Up to 1440W total PoE power budget with dual power supplies | — |
| Switching capacity | 448 Gbps / 333 Mpps forwarding rate | — |
| Management | Arista Cognitive Campus with CloudVision, ZTP, and sFlow | — |
| Chassis ports | — | 24 or 48 ports copper (1GbE, Multi-gigabit) or SFP/SFP+ fiber |
| Modular network modules | — | Up to 4x 10G SFP+, 8x 10G SFP+, 2x 40G QSFP+, 2x 25G SFP28, or 2x 100G QSFP28 |
| Stacking performance | — | StackWise-480 delivering 480 Gbps across 8 switches |
| Poe delivery | — | Cisco UPOE+ up to 90W per port (IEEE 802.3bt Class 8) |
| Security features | — | Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), MACsec-256, Trustworthy Solutions |
| Application hosting | — | Native Docker container and ThousandEyes enterprise agent hosting |
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