arista 7500 7508 vs cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7009
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7508 is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering up to 11.52 Tbps of switching bandwidth in an 11U frame. The Cisco Nexus 7009 is a 9-slot enterprise modular datacenter chassis switch engineered to deliver high port density in a compact 14U frame with side-to-side airflow.
| arista 7500 7508 | cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7009 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2010 | Apr 2011 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 8 | 9 |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | 7 payload slots (Slots 3 through 9) |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots | Slots 1 and 2 (redundant supervisor engines) |
| Fabric modules | Up to 6 rear fabric modules with N+1 redundancy | — |
| Chassis height | 11U rack mount | 14U rack mount |
| System throughput | Up to 11.52 Tbps | — |
| Max ports | Up to 384 10GbE or 96 40GbE ports in a single chassis | — |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 8.8 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules |
| Airflow | — | Side-to-side airflow compliant with standard datacenter hot/cold aisles |
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