cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7004 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9504
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 7004 is a compact 4-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering carrier-grade NX-OS routing and switching in a 7U frame. The Cisco Nexus 9504 is a 4-slot modular enterprise datacenter core and spine chassis switch delivering high bandwidth in a compact 7U rack profile.
| cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7004 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9504 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2011 | Mar 2014 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 4 | 4 |
| Supervisor slots | 2 supervisor slots (Slots 1 and 2) | 2 supervisor slots (active/standby) |
| Line card slots | 2 payload slots (Slots 3 and 4) | 4 payload line card slots |
| Chassis height | 7U rack mount | 7U rack mount |
| Switching bandwidth | Up to 1.92 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules | — |
| Virtualization | Virtual Device Context (VDC) technology for multi-tenant hardware partitioning | — |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 6 rear fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 57.6 Tbps with Cloud Scale GX2 line cards |
| Backplane design | — | Direct-attach orthogonal fabric without backplane traces |
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