Arista 7800R3 7808R3 vs Juniper MX Series MX10008
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 Juniper MX10008 is an 8-slot 13U cloud-grade universal routing chassis delivering up to 76.8 Tbps of system forwarding capacity.
| Arista 7800R3 7808R3 | Juniper MX Series MX10008 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Arista | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Mar 2016 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis router |
| Chassis slots | 8 | — |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Chassis height | 16U 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 | — |
| Slots | — | 8 payload line card slots, 6 switch fabric modules, 2 redundant routing control boards |
| Form factor | — | 13U modular rack-mounted core chassis |
| System capacity | — | Up to 76.8 Tbps full-duplex switching capacity |
| Per slot bandwidth | — | Up to 9.6 Tbps forwarding capacity per payload slot |
| High availability | — | N+1 fabric redundancy, hitless control plane failover, and redundant power shelves |
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