Cisco Nexus 7009 vs Cisco Nexus 9508
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 7009 is a 9-slot enterprise modular datacenter chassis switch engineered to deliver high port density in a compact 14U frame with side-to-side airflow. The Cisco Nexus 9508 is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering massive port density and switching capacity for enterprise cloud cores and hyperscale ACI spine fabrics.
| Cisco Nexus 7009 | Cisco Nexus 9508 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2011 | Nov 2013 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 9 | 8 |
| Supervisor slots | Slots 1 and 2 (redundant supervisor engines) | — |
| Line card slots | 7 payload slots (Slots 3 through 9) | — |
| Chassis height | 14U rack mount | 13U rack mount |
| Switching capacity | Up to 8.8 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules | — |
| Airflow | Side-to-side airflow compliant with standard datacenter hot/cold aisles | — |
| Supervisor engine slots | — | 2 redundant supervisor engine slots |
| Line card payload slots | — | 8 payload line card slots |
| Fabric slots | — | Up to 6 orthogonal fabric modules |
| System throughput | — | Up to 115.2 Tbps with GX2 line cards |
| Port densities | — | Up to 512 100G ports or 128 400G ports in a single chassis |
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