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cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 34180YC vs Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 34180YC is a high-speed 1U programmable datacenter switch powered by the bare-metal programmable Cisco Silicon One / P4-compatible switching architecture. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 is a 1U top-of-rack data center switch providing 48 1/10/25GbE SFP28 downlink ports and 6 40/100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports with wire-rate MACsec and telemetry.

cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 34180YCCisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3
BrandciscoCisco
Statuscurrentcurrent
ReleasedDec 2018Apr 2021
Form factor1U fixed switch1U
Ports48x 10G/25G SFP28 and 6x 40G/100G QSFP2848x 1/10/25GbE SFP28 + 6x 40/100GbE QSFP28
Switching capacity3.6 Tbps / 2.6 Bpps forwarding rate3.6 Tb/s
ProgrammabilityFully programmable pipeline architecture supporting custom telemetry protocols—
LatencyUltra-low latency cut-through architecture—
SoftwareCisco NX-OS with comprehensive Linux container support—
Form factor—1U rackmount
Forwarding rate—1.4 Bpps

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