cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7018 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9516
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 7018 is an 18-slot enterprise datacenter core chassis switch engineered for maximum port density and centralized aggregation. The Cisco Nexus 9516 is a 16-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering massive port density and switching bandwidth for large cloud service provider and enterprise datacenter spine fabrics.
| cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7018 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9516 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2009 | Jun 2014 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 18 | 16 |
| Supervisor slots | Slots 9 and 10 (redundant supervisor modules) | 2 redundant supervisor engine slots |
| Line card slots | 16 payload line card slots (Slots 1-8, 11-18) | 16 payload line card slots |
| Chassis height | 25U rack mount | 21U rack mount |
| System capacity | Up to 18.7 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules | — |
| Max ports | Up to 768 10GbE or 192 40GbE ports in a single chassis | Up to 1024 100G ports or 256 400G ports in a single chassis |
| Power | Up to four 7500W power supplies | — |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 6 rear fabric modules |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 230.4 Tbps |
| Operating modes | — | NX-OS standalone spine or Cisco ACI spine |
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