arista 7500E 7508E vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9508
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7508E is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering up to 30 Tbps of switching throughput in an 11U frame. The Cisco Nexus 9508 is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering massive port density and switching capacity for enterprise cloud cores and hyperscale ACI spine fabrics.
| arista 7500E 7508E | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9508 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2013 | Nov 2013 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 8 | 8 |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Chassis height | 11U rack mount | 13U rack mount |
| System capacity | Up to 30 Tbps / 14.4 Bpps forwarding throughput | — |
| Max ports | Up to 1152 10G, 288 40G, or 96 100G ports in a single chassis | — |
| Resiliency | Redundant supervisors, 6 hot-swap fabric modules, and up to 8 power supplies | — |
| Supervisor engine slots | — | 2 redundant supervisor engine slots |
| Line card payload slots | — | 8 payload line card slots |
| Fabric slots | — | Up to 6 orthogonal fabric modules |
| System throughput | — | Up to 115.2 Tbps with GX2 line cards |
| Port densities | — | Up to 512 100G ports or 128 400G ports in a single chassis |
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