Overview Chassis

Maximum Power OS Performance

Interfaces

Features

High Availability

Virtualization Network

Cisco Nexus Focus in DC Fixed platform and Modular Platform (Nexus 7000 - 9, 10, 18 slots) Max: 25RU 18K NX-OS (IOS+SAN OS) Max switching capacity: 17.6 Tbps Max packets per second: 11.5 Bpps Max bandwidth per slot: 550 Gbps 1GE Density: up to 768 ports 10GE Density: up to 768 ports 40GE Density: up to 96 ports 100GE Density: up to 32 ports Layer 2 MAC address: 128K Layer 2 ARP Entries: 350K Layer 2 Discovery: CDP, LLDP Layer 3 Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, IS-IS Security ACL Entries: 64K Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs): Devide a physical devices into multiple logical devices First Hop Redundancy Protocol - FHRP: HSRP, VRRP Multi-chassis link agg: vPC Ethernet&SAN: FC, FCoE Data Center Bridge Exchange-DCBX: All Platform Cloud Fabric: FabricPath Cloud Extending Layer 2: OTV Cloud Routing: LSIP Flow Monitoring: Netflow Packet Capture: Ethanalyzer (like Ethereal Wireshark), SPAN Cisco Nexus 7000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 2000 Cisco Nexus 1000v

Juniper EX&QFabric Working in DC, Campus, Branch Fixed platform and Modular Platform (EX8200 - 8,16 slots) Max: 21 RU 14K Junos Max switching capacity: 12.4 Tbps Max packets per second: 1.92 Bpps Max bandwith per slot: 160 Gbps 1GE Density: up to 768 ports 10GE Density: up to 640 ports

Management

Layer 2 MAC address: 160K Layer 2 ARP Entries: 100K Layer 2 Discovery: LLDP Layer 3 Routing: OSPF, BGP, IS-IS Security ACL Entries: 54K Virtual Chassis: Multiple interconnected physical devices as a logical device First Hop Redundancy Protocol - FHRP: VRRP Multi-chassis link agg Ethernet&SAN: FCoE only EX4500, QFabric support FC & FCoE Data Center Bridge Exchange-DCBX: EX 4500, QFabric Cloud Fabric: QFaric TRILL Cloud Extending Layer 2: no Cloud Routing: no Flow Monitoring: sFlow Packet Capture: Port Monitoring (like Cisco SPAN) Juniper EX8200 Juniper EX4200/4500

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