arista 7800R3 7808R3 vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7808R3 is an 8-slot modular cloud spine and datacenter core chassis delivering up to 230 Tbps of switching throughput in a 16U frame. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| arista 7800R3 7808R3 | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 8 | — |
| Line card slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Chassis height | 16U rack mount | — |
| Switching throughput | Up to 230 Tbps / 69.1 Bpps forwarding rate | — |
| Port scale | Up to 288x 400G or 1152x 100G ports in 16U | — |
| Cooling | True front-to-rear airflow with hot-swappable dual fan trays | — |
| Form factor | — | 8U 8-slot modular enterprise chassis |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 7.14 Bpps throughput |
| Management modules | — | Dual hot-swappable Management Modules (active/standby) |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 3 active fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Line cards | — | 8 payload line card slots (supporting up to 256 10G or 64 100G ports) |
| High availability | — | Hitless stateful failover, VSX multi-chassis bonding, and non-stop routing |
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