Arista 7800R3 7804R3 vs Cisco Nexus 9504
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7804R3 is a 4-slot modular cloud spine and routing chassis engineered to deliver up to 115 Tbps of non-blocking throughput in a 10U frame. The Cisco Nexus 9504 is a 4-slot modular enterprise datacenter core and spine chassis switch delivering high bandwidth in a compact 7U rack profile.
| Arista 7800R3 7804R3 | Cisco Nexus 9504 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Mar 2014 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 4 | 4 |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots | 4 payload line card slots |
| Chassis height | 10U rack mount | 7U rack mount |
| Switching capacity | Up to 115 Tbps system bandwidth | Up to 57.6 Tbps with Cloud Scale GX2 line cards |
| Per slot capacity | Up to 28.8 Tbps per slot | — |
| Packet buffer | HBM integrated packet buffer pool | — |
| Power supplies | Up to six 3000W AC or DC high-efficiency power supplies | — |
| Supervisor slots | — | 2 supervisor slots (active/standby) |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 6 rear fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Backplane design | — | Direct-attach orthogonal fabric without backplane traces |
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