Cisco Nexus 6004X vs Cisco Nexus 9364C
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 6004X is a high-density 4U modular datacenter switch delivering up to 96 ports of 40GbE QSFP+ or up to 384 ports of 10GbE in four rack units. The Cisco Nexus 9364C is an enterprise 2U fixed datacenter spine switch delivering 64 ports of wire-speed 40G/100G QSFP28.
| Cisco Nexus 6004X | Cisco Nexus 9364C | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 4U modular switch | 2U fixed switch |
| Chassis architecture | 4U modular chassis with up to 8 line card slots | — |
| Port scale | Up to 96x 40GbE QSFP+ or 384x 10GbE SFP+ ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 7.68 Tbps non-blocking throughput | 12.8 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth |
| Latency | Sub-microsecond cut-through switching latency | — |
| Protocols | BGP, OSPF, ISIS, FabricPath, FCoE, and VXLAN | — |
| Port configuration | — | 64x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Forwarding rate | — | Up to 4.3 Bpps |
| Form factor | — | 2U rack mount |
| Operating modes | — | Cisco ACI Spine or NX-OS IP Fabric Spine |
| Cooling power | — | Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and 3+1 redundant fan modules |
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