The ever-growing need for higher speed data transmission has spurred the development of all kinds of network devices, such as fiber patch cables which have promoted from OM1 to OM5, and fiber optic transceivers which have evolved from SFP to QSFP28. in addition, as long as you have basic knowledge about cabling system in data centers, you are not likely to be unfamiliar with switch. Of course, switch also has been optimized its configuration and capacity over time from with only 1G SFP port for 1G network to with 40G QSFP port for 40G network. Nowadays, 40G network has become the mainstream in data center and switch with multiple 40G QSFP ports is popular with network engineer. The Arista 7050QX Series are designed for 10/40GbE network for data center and this article is going to focus on the comparison between Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S switch.
As the members of the Arista 7050QX Series, Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S are the key components of the Arista portfollo of data center switches. Both of them are built in compact and energy efficient form factors with wire speed layer 2 and layer 3 features, combined with advanced features for software defined cloud networking. In addition, both Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S are able to support a flexible combination of 10G and 40G in a highly compact form factor. Because of this feature, network engineers can design large leaf and spine networks to accommodate east-west traffic patterns found in modern data centers, high performance compute and big data environments.
From the model name, it is not difficult to infer that there are both similarities and differences between Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S. The following part will focus on the similarities and differences between these two Arista switches.

Figure of Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S
Combined with Arista EOS, Arista DCS-7050QX-32 and Arista DCS-7050QX-32S?can deliver advanced features for big data, cloud, virtualized and traditional designs. They can be either used with 40GBASE-SR QSFP and multimode fiber cable for short optical links or used with 40GBASE-LR4 QSFP and single mode fiber cable for long transmission distance. Besides, they can use breakout cable to achieve 40G to 10G connection. Therefore, both of them are a good selection for data center 10G and 40G network deployment. As for which one to choose, it all depends on your specific requirement. If your budget is tight, Arista DCS-7050QX-32 will be better value; if you want 10G SFP ports, then choose Arista DCS-7050QX-32S.