cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3232C vs juniper QFX Series QFX5200-32C
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 3232C is a high-density 1U 100GbE datacenter switch delivering 32 ports of wire-speed 40G/100G QSFP28. The Juniper QFX5200-32C is a 1U datacenter spine switch powered by Broadcom Tomahawk silicon, providing 32 ports of 40G/100G QSFP28.
| cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 3232C | juniper QFX Series QFX5200-32C | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | juniper |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Sep 2015 | Nov 2015 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Ports | 32x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | 32x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Switching capacity | 6.4 Tbps / 3.3 Bpps forwarding throughput | 6.4 Tbps / 3.2 Bpps wire-speed forwarding performance |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | — |
| Latency | Cut-through switching with sub-microsecond port-to-port latency | — |
| Features | VXLAN EVPN, OpenFlow, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible automation | BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, and Junos telemetry streaming |
| Silicon | — | Broadcom Tomahawk 100G packet processing ASIC |
| Power and cooling | — | Dual hot-swappable AC/DC power supplies with front-to-back or back-to-front airflow |
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