Cisco Catalyst 6880-X vs HPE Aruba CX 8320
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 6880-X is an enterprise semi-modular 10GbE campus aggregation switch providing up to 80 ports of 10G SFP+ in a compact 5U footprint. 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 6880-X | HPE Aruba CX 8320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | semi-modular switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Form factor | 5U semi-modular chassis | 1U fixed switch with redundant power and fans |
| Base ports | 16 fixed 10GbE SFP+ ports on base chassis | — |
| Expansion slots | 4 expansion slots supporting 16-port 10GbE SFP+ modules | — |
| Total 10g ports | Up to 80 ports of line-rate 10GbE SFP+ | — |
| System throughput | Up to 2 Tbps switching capacity | — |
| High availability | Virtual Switching System (VSS) active-active clustering | Aruba VSX multi-chassis redundancy |
| 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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