JUNIPER EX8200 VS.

CISCO NEXUS 7000

 JUNIPER EX8208 VS. CISCO NX7010

Performance, Latency, Buffering, EX8208 NX7010

Capacity (8-slot) (8-slot)

230 Gbps
Fabric Data Rate per Slot 194 Gbps
(No Switch Fabric Redundancy)

Fabric Data Rate per Slot With Switch

194 Gbps 180 Gbps
Fabric Redundancy

10GbE Packets/second per Slot (IPv4) 120 Mpps 60 Mpps

10 GbE Packets/second per Slot (IPv6) 120 Mpps 30 Mpps

10 GbE Packets/second per System 960 Mpps 480 Mpps (IPv4 only)

No
Line Rate at All Packet Sizes Yes
64-128 bytes packets below line rate
Current 10 GbE Line Card Capacity 80 Gbps 80 Gbps

Latency (64 bytes packet sizes) 8-15us 20-40us

 JUNIPER EX8208 VS. CISCO NX7010

Performance, Latency, Buffering, EX8208 NX7010

Capacity (8-slot) (8-slot)

Buffering per 10 GbE port 512 MB 80 MB

Buffering per GbE port 42 MB 7 MB

Total Fabric Capacity 3.10 Tbps 3.69 Tbps

3.10 Tbps 2.95 Tbps

Redundant Fabric Capacity
(2+1) (4+1)

6.2 Tbps 7 Tbps

Future Switch Fabric Capacity
(2 + 1) (No Switch Fabric Redundancy)
 JUNIPER EX8208 VS. CISCO NX7010
EX8208 NX7010
Scalability
(8-slot) (8-slot)
MAC address 160K 128K

IPv4 Unicast / Multicast Routes 512K/128K 80K/20K

IPv6 Unicast / Multicast 256K/128K 2K Multicast

Queues per 10 GbE port 8 8
Queues per GbE port 8 4
QoS & Security ACLs 54K 64K
EX8208 NX7010
Power, Cooling, Rack-space (RU)
(8-slot) (8-slot)
Max Power Consumption 6KW 10KW

Power Redundancy N+N N+1

Height (RU), Depth 14 RU 21 RU

Cooling Side to Side Front to Back

JUNIPER EX8216 VS. CISCO NX7018
EX8216 NX7018
Performance, Switch Fabric Capacity
(16-slot) (16-slot)

Fabric Data Rate per Slot 194 Gbps 230 Gbps

Fabric Data Rate per Slot, single SF failure 170 Gbps 184 Gbps

Total Fabric Capacity 6.2 Tbps 7.38 Tbps

Future Fabric Capacity 12.4 Tbps + 14.76 Tbps

10GbE Packets/second per Slot (IPv4) 120 Mpps 60 Mpps

10 GbE Packets/second per Slot (IPv6) 120 Mpps 30 Mpps

960 Mpps (IPv4

10 GbE Packets/second per System 1920 Mpps
only)

GbE Packets/second per Slot(IPv4) 71 Mpps 60 Mpps

GbE Packets/second per Slot(IPv6) 71 Mpps 30 Mpps

 JUNIPER EX8216 VS. CISCO NX7018
EX8216 NX7018
Performance, Latency, Buffering
(16-slot) (16-slot)
No
Line Rate at All Packet Sizes Yes 64-128 bytes packets below
line rate

Current 10 GbE Line Card Capacity 80 Gbps 80 Gbps

Current GbE Line Card Capacity 48 Gbps 40 Gbps

Latency 8-15us 20-40us

Line rate 10 GbE ports per chassis 128, 128

128, 256
and 42 RU standard rack
Line rate GbE ports per chassis and
768, 1536 640, 640
42 RU standard rack

Buffering per 10 GbE port 512 MB 80 MB

Buffering per GbE port 42 MB 7 MB

JUNIPER EX8216 VS. CISCO NX7018
EX8216 NX7018
Scalability
(16-slot) (18-slot)
MAC address 160K 128K

IPv4 Unicast / Multicast Routes 512K/128K 80K/20K

IPv6 Unicast / Multicast 256K/128K 2K Multicast

Queues per 10 GbE port 8 8

Queues per GbE port 8 4

QoS & Security ACLs 54K 64K

EX8216 NX7018
Cooling, Rack-space (RU)
(16-slot) (16-slot)

Height (RU), Depth 21 RU 25 RU

Depth 25” 33”

Cooling Side to Side Side to Side

 JUNIPER EX8216 VS. CISCO NX7018

EX8216 NX7018
Power Consumption
(16-slot) (16-slot)

14353W
Max Power Consumption for 128 10 GbE ports 11175W

Max Power Consumption per line-rate 10 GbE

87W 112W
port

Max Power Consumption for 768 GbE ports 7975W 8753W

Max Power Consumption per line-rate GbE port 10.4W 13.7W

Max Power Consumption for 32 10 GbE and 576

8775W 10153W
GbE ports

Max power consumption per million packets per

5.8W per mpps 15.0W per mpps
second