Arista DCS-7124S |
RackSwitch G8124 |
Cisco Nexus 5010 |
PowerConnect 8024F |
Summit X650-24x |
HP ProCurve 6600-24XG |
| Arista Networks |
Blade Network Technologies |
Cisco |
Dell |
Extreme Networks |
HP ProCurve Networking |
| $26,080 |
$26,350 |
$67,030 |
$14,519 |
$46,665 |
$63,594 |
| Very low latency and jitter; extensible Linux operating system; standards-based. |
Very low latency and jitter; lowest power consumption; smallest form factor. |
Full Fibre Channel/FCoE support; extensive virtualization features. |
Relatively low latency, jitter and IGMP message processing time. |
Highest IGMP group capacity. |
Largest MAC address capacity. |
| Relatively low MAC address capacity. |
Relatively low MAC address capacity. |
High latency; no Layer-3 support; some leakage in multicast tests. |
Relatively low IGMP group capacity;
uneven distribution in some link aggregation tests. |
Relatively high power consumption; uneven distribution in some link aggregation tests. |
Low unicast and multicast throughput; relatively high latency; frames forwarded out of sequence. |
|
| Features (35%) |
4.5 |
4 |
3.75 |
3.75 |
4.5 |
3.75 |
| Management/usability (15%) |
4 |
4.5 |
3.75 |
3.75 |
3.75 |
3.75 |
| Power consumption (10%) |
4 |
5 |
4.5 |
3.5 |
3 |
3 |
| Unicast scalability (5%) |
3 |
3.5 |
4 |
3.75 |
3 |
4.75 |
| Unicast/multicast throughput (5%) |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
4.75 |
1.5 |
| Unicast/multicast latency and jitter (15%) |
4.5 |
4.5 |
4 |
3.25 |
2.25 |
2.5 |
| Multicast group capacity (5%) |
4 |
3.25 |
3 |
5 |
3.75 |
4 |
| Multicast join/leave delay (5%) |
4.5 |
3.75 |
4 |
3.25 |
2.25 |
2.5 |
| Link aggregation fairness (5%) |
4.25 |
4.25 |
2.75 |
2.75 |
4.25 |
3.5 |
| Total |
4.29 |
4.24 |
3.86 |
3.7 |
3.68 |
3.36 |
|
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Scoring key: 5: Exceptional; 4: Very good; 3: Average; 2: Below average; 1: Subpar or not available. |
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