Cisco Catalyst 9606R vs Juniper EX Series EX9214
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 9606R is a 6-slot modular enterprise campus core chassis switch built to deliver multi-terabit throughput for enterprise backbones. The Juniper EX9214 is a 14-slot 16U high-capacity modular core chassis switch engineered for large enterprise campus backbones and datacenter aggregation.
| Cisco Catalyst 9606R | Juniper EX Series EX9214 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2019 | Mar 2013 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 6 | — |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots (Slots 3 and 4) | — |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots (Slots 1, 2, 5, 6) | — |
| Chassis height | 10U rack mount | — |
| Switching bandwidth | Up to 25.6 Tbps with Supervisor Engine 2 | — |
| Per slot bandwidth | Up to 6.4 Tbps per slot | — |
| High availability | Full supervisor SSO/NSF, N+N power, and N+1 fan redundancy | — |
| Slots | — | 14 slots (2 routing engine slots, 2 switch fabric slots, 10 payload line card slots) |
| Height | — | 16U rack enclosure with independent fabric and routing planes |
| Throughput | — | Up to 13.2 Tbps aggregate system capacity / up to 480 Gbps per line card slot |
| Fabric architecture | — | Centralized switch fabric cards separate from routing engines |
| Redundancy | — | Fully redundant power, cooling, routing engines, and switch fabric cards |
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