Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3 vs NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3420
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. 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. The NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3420 is an enterprise 1U datacenter top-of-rack leaf switch delivering 48 ports of 10G/25G SFP28 and 12 ports of 40G/100G QSFP28.
| Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Nexus 93180YC-FX3 | NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3420 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | NVIDIA |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Jun 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U | 1U fixed switch |
| Form factor | 1U rackmount | — |
| Ports | 48x 1/10/25GbE SFP28 + 6x 40/100GbE QSFP28 | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 and 12x 40G/100G QSFP28 uplinks |
| Switching capacity | 3.6 Tb/s | 4.8 Tbps / 3.58 Bpps forwarding rate |
| Forwarding rate | 1.4 Bpps | — |
| Silicon | — | NVIDIA Spectrum-2 programmable 16nm network processing ASIC |
| Telemetry | — | NVIDIA WJH (What Just Happened) hardware-based packet telemetry |
| Power supplies | — | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power modules |
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