cisco Catalyst 4500 Catalyst 4500X vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8100
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 4500-X switch series is a compact 1U fixed 10GbE aggregation and campus core switch delivering up to 800 Gbps of switching bandwidth. The Aruba CX 8100 switch series is a family of compact 1U campus core and aggregation switches designed for enterprise datacenters and mid-sized campus backbones.
| cisco Catalyst 4500 Catalyst 4500X | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2012 | Apr 2023 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Form factor | 1U fixed rack-mount switch | 1U fixed-configuration switch with hot-swap power and fans |
| Port density | 16 or 32 fixed 10GbE SFP+ ports, plus 8-port 10GbE expansion module | — |
| Switching throughput | Up to 800 Gbps with 248 Mpps forwarding rate | — |
| High availability | Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS) active-active clustering | — |
| Power cooling | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies, front-to-back airflow | — |
| Operating system | Cisco IOS XE with full Layer 3 Enterprise Services | — |
| Port configurations | — | 24x or 48x 10GbE SFP+ with 4x 40G/100G QSFP28 uplinks |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 1.76 Tbps |
| Forwarding rate | — | Up to 1,309 Mpps |
| Airflow options | — | Front-to-back or back-to-front airflow |
| Resiliency | — | Aruba VSX active-active control plane with sub-second failover |
| Protocols | — | BGP, OSPF, VRF, EVPN-VXLAN, and PIM |
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