Cisco Catalyst 9606R vs HPE Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Catalyst 9606R is a 6-slot modular enterprise campus core chassis switch built to deliver multi-terabit throughput for enterprise backbones. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| Cisco Catalyst 9606R | HPE Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2019 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 6 | — |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots (Slots 3 and 4) | — |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots (Slots 1, 2, 5, 6) | — |
| Chassis height | 10U rack mount | — |
| Switching bandwidth | Up to 25.6 Tbps with Supervisor Engine 2 | — |
| Per slot bandwidth | Up to 6.4 Tbps per slot | — |
| High availability | Full supervisor SSO/NSF, N+N power, and N+1 fan redundancy | Hitless stateful failover, VSX multi-chassis bonding, and non-stop routing |
| 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) |
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