arista 7500R 7508R vs juniper MX Series MX480
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7508R is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch combining deep packet buffering, high-density 100GbE switching, and carrier routing scale. The Juniper MX480 is an 8U modular universal routing platform engineered for enterprise edge, cloud provider interconnect, and telecom central office environments.
| arista 7500R 7508R | juniper MX Series MX480 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | juniper |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Mar 2016 | Jun 2007 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8U modular router |
| Chassis slots | 8 | — |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Chassis height | 13U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 38.4 Tbps / 14.4 Bpps forwarding capacity | — |
| Packet buffer | Up to 768GB deep packet buffer pool | — |
| Port scale | Up to 288 line-rate 100GbE ports in a single chassis | — |
| Slots | — | 6 dedicated MPC line card slots, 2 SCB slots with redundant Routing Engines |
| Form factor | — | 8U modular rack-mounted chassis |
| System capacity | — | Up to 9 Tbps full-duplex system switching capacity with MPC10E line cards |
| Port density | — | Supports up to 90x 100GbE ports or 24x 400GbE ports in a single 8U frame |
| Power options | — | High-capacity AC and DC power distribution shelves with N+1 redundancy |
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