cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9364C vs juniper QFX Series QFX10002-36Q
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 Juniper QFX10002-36Q is a 2U deep-buffer fixed spine and datacenter interconnect (DCI) switch powered by custom Juniper Q5 ASICs.
| cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9364C | juniper QFX Series QFX10002-36Q | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | juniper |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Mar 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U fixed switch | 2U fixed switch |
| Port configuration | 64x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 12.8 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth | 2.88 Tbps / 1 Bpps forwarding capacity |
| 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 | — | 36x 40GbE QSFP+ ports (configurable as 12x 100GbE QSFP28) |
| Buffer memory | — | Deep packet buffers delivering up to 100 ms of packet buffering per port |
| Silicon | — | Custom Juniper Q5 ASICs with hardware-embedded packet memory |
| Routing tables | — | High scale supporting up to 1 million IPv4 routes and large MPLS tables |
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