Arista 7800R3 7808R3 vs Cisco Nexus 9508
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7808R3 is an 8-slot modular cloud spine and datacenter core chassis delivering up to 230 Tbps of switching throughput in a 16U 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 7800R3 7808R3 | Cisco Nexus 9508 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Nov 2013 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 8 | 8 |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Chassis height | 16U rack mount | 13U rack mount |
| Switching throughput | Up to 230 Tbps / 69.1 Bpps forwarding rate | — |
| Port scale | Up to 288x 400G or 1152x 100G ports in 16U | — |
| Cooling | True front-to-rear airflow with hot-swappable dual fan trays | — |
| 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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