cisco Catalyst 4500 Catalyst 4500X vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8320
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 8320 switch series is an enterprise 1U campus core and datacenter top-of-rack switch delivering wire-speed 10GbE and 40GbE performance.
| cisco Catalyst 4500 Catalyst 4500X | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2012 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Form factor | 1U fixed rack-mount switch | 1U fixed switch with redundant 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 | Aruba VSX multi-chassis redundancy |
| 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 options | — | 48x 10GbE SFP+ with 6x 40GbE QSFP+, or 32x 40GbE QSFP+ |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 2.5 Tbps |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 1,905 Mpps |
| Cooling airflow | — | Front-to-back (port-to-power) or back-to-front (power-to-port) |
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