Arista 7500 7504 vs Cisco Nexus 7004
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7504 is a 4-slot modular datacenter spine and core chassis delivering up to 5.76 Tbps of switching throughput in a compact 7U rack profile. The Cisco Nexus 7004 is a compact 4-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering carrier-grade NX-OS routing and switching in a 7U frame.
| Arista 7500 7504 | Cisco Nexus 7004 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2010 | Apr 2011 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 4 | 4 |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots (active/standby) | 2 supervisor slots (Slots 1 and 2) |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots | 2 payload slots (Slots 3 and 4) |
| Chassis height | 7U rack mount | 7U rack mount |
| System capacity | Up to 5.76 Tbps / 4.3 Bpps | — |
| Power supplies | Up to four hot-swappable redundant power supplies | — |
| Switching bandwidth | — | Up to 1.92 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules |
| Virtualization | — | Virtual Device Context (VDC) technology for multi-tenant hardware partitioning |
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