Campus distribution switches
Campus distribution switches aggregate the access layer: fibre uplinks from many closets, routing, and the resilience a building or site core needs. These are the families SKUit's vendors position for distribution and small campus cores.
2 vendors · 5 product families · 14 platforms
Cisco
4 families Cisco positions for this role
- Catalyst 9400Mid-range to Premium
Modular campus — hot-swap line cards and supervisors, high availability
- Catalyst 9500Premium
Campus core/aggregation — 25-100G fixed, high switching capacity
- Catalyst 9500XPremium
High-performance core — 50-400G, Silicon One Q200, up to 12.8 Tbps fabric
- Catalyst 9600Premium
Campus core and aggregation — modular, hot-swap supervisors and line cards, 40/100/400G uplinks, 25.6 Tbps switching capacity
Juniper Networks
1 family Juniper Networks positions for this role
- Juniper QFX5120Mid-range
25 GbE data-center leaf and campus distribution fixed 1U switch line. Trident 3 silicon, MACsec on the -48YM variant, Virtual Chassis stacking via uplink ports. Workhorse 25G ToR for non-AI data centers.
Other roles
The same catalog, by the job the switch does
- Top-of-rack switchesServer-facing leaf switches for the data centre rack
- Spine switchesSpine and super-spine switches for the data-centre fabric
- Campus access switchesWiring-closet switches for users, phones and access points
- WAN edge and branch switchesSwitching for branch offices and the WAN edge
- Small business switchesCompact switches for small offices and small campuses
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