cisco Nexus 7700 Nexus 7706 vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 7706 is a 6-slot modular enterprise datacenter chassis switch in the Nexus 7700 family. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| cisco Nexus 7700 Nexus 7706 | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2014 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 6 | — |
| Supervisor slots | Slots 1 and 2 (redundant supervisor modules) | — |
| Line card slots | 4 payload line card slots (Slots 3 through 6) | — |
| Chassis height | 9U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 21 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| Per slot bandwidth | 1.3 Tbps per slot | — |
| Airflow | True front-to-back airflow matching modern datacenter standards | — |
| Form factor | — | 8U 8-slot modular enterprise chassis |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 7.14 Bpps throughput |
| Management modules | — | Dual hot-swappable Management Modules (active/standby) |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 3 active fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Line cards | — | 8 payload line card slots (supporting up to 256 10G or 64 100G ports) |
| High availability | — | Hitless stateful failover, VSX multi-chassis bonding, and non-stop routing |
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