cisco Catalyst 6800 Catalyst 6807-XL vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL is a 7-slot modular enterprise campus backbone chassis designed to provide high-bandwidth 10G, 40G, and 100G aggregation. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| cisco Catalyst 6800 Catalyst 6807-XL | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Nov 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 7 | — |
| Supervisor slots | Slots 3 and 4 (redundant supervisor slots) | — |
| Line card slots | 5 payload slots (Slots 1, 2, 5, 6, 7) | — |
| Chassis height | 10U rack mount | — |
| Backplane bandwidth | 880 Gbps per slot architecture | — |
| Module compatibility | Supports Catalyst 6800 line cards and Catalyst 6500-E line cards with Sup2T | — |
| Redundancy | N+1 power supply redundancy and high-efficiency 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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