cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX vs juniper QFX Series QFX5110-48S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX is an enterprise 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC. The Juniper QFX5110-48S is a 1U datacenter leaf switch engineered for 10GbE server access and 100GbE uplink connectivity.
| cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 93180YC-FX | juniper QFX Series QFX5110-48S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | juniper |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Feb 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | — |
| Uplink ports | 6x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 3.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth | 1.76 Tbps / 1.31 Bpps forwarding capacity |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 2.6 Bpps | — |
| Storage networking | Supports native Fibre Channel (16G/32G) and FCoE on downlink ports | — |
| Operating modes | Cisco NX-OS Mode or Cisco ACI Leaf Mode | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 10GbE SFP+ and 4x 100GbE QSFP28 / 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks |
| Overlays | — | Hardware-accelerated EVPN-VXLAN Layer 2 and Layer 3 gateway support |
| Os architecture | — | Junos OS with enhanced memory capacity for large BGP and routing tables |
| Power supplies | — | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power modules |
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