Cisco Nexus 9364C vs Dell PowerSwitch S5296F-ON
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9364C is an enterprise 2U fixed datacenter spine switch delivering 64 ports of wire-speed 40G/100G QSFP28. The Dell PowerSwitch S5296F-ON is a massive 2U open networking leaf switch built for ultra-high-density compute racks, web-scale cloud data centers, and multi-tenant virtualization fabrics.
| Cisco Nexus 9364C | Dell PowerSwitch S5296F-ON | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Mar 2019 |
| Form factor | 2U fixed switch | 2U rack |
| Port configuration | 64x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 12.8 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth | 6.4 Tbps (12.8 Tbps full duplex) |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 4.3 Bpps | — |
| Form factor | 2U rack mount | — |
| Operating modes | Cisco ACI Spine or NX-OS IP Fabric Spine | — |
| Cooling power | Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and 3+1 redundant fan modules | — |
| Ports | — | 96x 25GbE SFP28 + 8x 100GbE QSFP28 ports |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-plug 1600W AC or DC power supplies, normal or reverse airflow |
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