cisco Catalyst 9500 Catalyst 9500 vs juniper EX Series EX4650
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 9500 switch series is the industry's first purpose-built 1U fixed-core and aggregation enterprise platform. The Juniper EX4650 is a high-density 1U campus distribution, core, and datacenter top-of-rack switch delivering 48 ports of 10G/25G SFP28 and 8 ports of 40G/100G QSFP28.
| cisco Catalyst 9500 Catalyst 9500 | juniper EX Series EX4650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Nov 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Form factor | 1U or 2U fixed-configuration switch | — |
| Port variations | Models offering 16/24/40/48 ports of 10G/25G SFP28 or 16/32 ports of 40G/100G QSFP28 | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 3.2 Tbps system bandwidth | 2 Tbps / 1.49 Bpps wire-speed forwarding performance |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 2 Bpps throughput | — |
| Virtualization | Cisco StackWise Virtual active-active multi-chassis technology | — |
| Routing protocols | BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, VRF-lite, and full MPLS L3VPN | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 and 8x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Overlays | — | Hardware-accelerated EVPN-VXLAN campus fabric and datacenter interconnect |
| Stacking | — | Virtual Chassis technology connecting up to four EX4650 units |
| Management | — | Junos OS with telemetry streaming, Python scripting, and Mist AI monitoring |
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