Cisco Catalyst 9404R vs HPE Aruba CX 6405
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 9404R is a 4-slot modular enterprise chassis switch engineered for midsize campus access, distribution, and collapsed core layers. The Aruba CX 6405 is a 5-slot high-density modular chassis switch engineered for enterprise campus aggregation and core layers.
| Cisco Catalyst 9404R | HPE Aruba CX 6405 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2018 | Oct 2019 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 5-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 4 | — |
| Supervisor slots | 2 dedicated supervisor slots (Slots 2 and 3) | — |
| Line card slots | 2 dedicated payload line card slots (Slots 1 and 4) | Up to 5 line card slots (or 4 with dual management) |
| Chassis height | 6U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 1.44 Tbps with Supervisor 1XL-Y | Up to 14 Tbps switching bandwidth |
| High availability | Stateful Switchover (SSO) and Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) | Non-Stop Switching (VSX), Non-Stop Routing, live software updates |
| Poe capability | Up to 96 ports of 90W UPOE+ across 2 line cards | — |
| Form factor | — | 5U 5-slot modular chassis |
| Management slots | — | Dual redundant Management Modules (active/standby) |
| Fabric slots | — | Up to 4 fabric modules |
| Port density | — | Up to 120 1GbE/Smart Rate ports or 96 10G/25G SFP28 ports |
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