Compare the new Cisco Nexus 3132Q vs. the new Cisco Nexus 3172PQ switches
Curiously, Cisco's unable to provide latency numbers on these new Nexus switches targeted at the switch portfolio of its top high frequency trading competitor, Arista Networks.
"Both switches are 1RU in height with 32 line rate 40-Gbps Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP+) ports for the Nexus 3132Q and 48 line rate 10 Gbps SFP+ with 6 fixed QSFP+ ports for the Nexus 3172PQ.
"All of the QSFP+ ports on the device can operate as a native 40-Gbps port or a four independent 10-Gbps ports. The switches also have a serial console port, USB port, PPS connector and an out-of-band 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet management ports. From a software perspective, the rich NX-OS operating system fully supports the Cisco Open Network Environment framework with Openflow and the onePK toolkit in addition to standards based Layer 2 and Layer 3 features."
Compare the new Cisco Nexus 3132Q
vs.
the new Cisco Nexus 3172PQ switches
Curiously, Cisco's unable to provide latency numbers on these new Nexus switches targeted at the switch portfolio of its top high frequency trading competitor, Arista Networks.
