Cisco Nexus 9504 vs Juniper QFX Series QFX5700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9504 is a 4-slot modular enterprise datacenter core and spine chassis switch delivering high bandwidth in a compact 7U rack profile. The Juniper QFX5700 is a 5U modular datacenter spine and core chassis switch powered by Broadcom Trident 4 programmable silicon.
| Cisco Nexus 9504 | Juniper QFX Series QFX5700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2014 | Nov 2021 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 5U modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 4 | — |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots (active/standby) | — |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots | — |
| Fabric modules | Up to 6 rear fabric modules with N+1 redundancy | — |
| Chassis height | 7U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 57.6 Tbps with Cloud Scale GX2 line cards | Up to 25.6 Tbps system switching capacity |
| Backplane design | Direct-attach orthogonal fabric without backplane traces | — |
| Form factor | — | 5U modular chassis with front-to-back airflow |
| Silicon | — | Broadcom Trident 4 programmable network processing ASICs |
| Line cards | — | Modular payload slots supporting 400GbE QSFP-DD and 100GbE QSFP28 cards |
| Software | — | Junos OS Evolved with automated telemetry, Python programmability, and zero-touch operations |
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