Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B vs Juniper QFX Series QFX5130-32CD
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B is a compact 1U 400GbE datacenter spine and leaf switch powered by Cisco Cloud Scale GX2 silicon. The Juniper QFX5130-32CD is a 1U high-capacity cloud spine and leaf switch powered by Broadcom Trident 4 programmable silicon.
| Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B | Juniper QFX Series QFX5130-32CD | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2022 | Oct 2020 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Ports | 32x 400G QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) | 32x 400GbE QSFP-DD ports |
| Switching capacity | 25.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth | 25.6 Tbps / 5.35 Bpps forwarding performance |
| Forwarding throughput | Up to 5.7 Bpps | — |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | — |
| Security | Line-rate MACsec-256 encryption standard across all ports | — |
| Workloads | Artificial intelligence clusters, cloud spine layers, and 400G datacenter fabrics | — |
| Silicon | — | Broadcom Trident 4 programmable 7nm packet processing silicon |
| Operating system | — | Junos OS Evolved Linux-based containerized microservices architecture |
| Breakout options | — | Supports 4x 100GbE, 2x 200GbE, or 8x 50GbE breakouts per QSFP-DD port |
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