cisco Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548P vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8320
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 5548P is a 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch offering 32 fixed ports of 10GbE SFP+ and an expansion slot for modular port flexibility. 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 Nexus 5500 Nexus 5548P | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8320 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2010 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Fixed ports | 32x 1G/10GbE SFP+ ports | — |
| Expansion slot | 1 expansion slot supporting 16-port 10GbE module or unified port module | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 960 Gbps / 714 Mpps | Up to 2.5 Tbps |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | 1U fixed switch with redundant power and fans |
| Storage traffic | Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) transit and termination | — |
| Fex support | Manages up to 24 Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders | — |
| Port options | — | 48x 10GbE SFP+ with 6x 40GbE QSFP+, or 32x 40GbE QSFP+ |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 1,905 Mpps |
| High availability | — | Aruba VSX multi-chassis redundancy |
| Cooling airflow | — | Front-to-back (port-to-power) or back-to-front (power-to-port) |
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