cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 34180YC vs HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 34180YC is a high-speed 1U programmable datacenter switch powered by the bare-metal programmable Cisco Silicon One / P4-compatible switching architecture. The HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C is a high-density 1U top-of-rack data center and storage switch running ArubaOS-CX.
| cisco Nexus 3000 Nexus 34180YC | HPE Aruba CX 8325-48Y8C | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Dec 2018 | Jan 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U rack |
| Ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 and 6x 40G/100G QSFP28 | 48x 25GbE SFP28 ports + 8x 100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports |
| Switching capacity | 3.6 Tbps / 2.6 Bpps forwarding rate | 6.4 Tbps aggregate switching throughput |
| Programmability | Fully programmable pipeline architecture supporting custom telemetry protocols | — |
| Latency | Ultra-low latency cut-through architecture | — |
| Software | Cisco NX-OS with comprehensive Linux container support | — |
| Form factor | — | 1U fixed-configuration datacenter switch |
| Port configurations | — | 48x 25GbE SFP28 + 8x 100GbE QSFP28, or 32x 100GbE QSFP28 |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 2,000 Mpps |
| Datacenter features | — | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2 RDMA, Priority Flow Control, ETS |
| Resiliency | — | Hot-swappable N+1 fans and redundant hot-swappable power supplies |
| Power supply | — | Dual hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies with N+1 redundant fans |
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