cisco Nexus 7700 Nexus 7718 vs cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9516
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 7718 is an 18-slot flagship modular datacenter core switch delivering massive capacity and up to 83 Tbps of switching throughput in a 26U frame. 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 7700 Nexus 7718 | cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9516 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | cisco |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2013 | 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 slots (Slots 1-8, 11-18) | 16 payload line card slots |
| Chassis height | 26U rack mount | 21U rack mount |
| Switching capacity | Up to 83 Tbps system bandwidth | Up to 230.4 Tbps |
| Fabric architecture | 6 orthogonal rear fabric modules | — |
| Port scale | Up to 768 10G, 384 40G, or 192 100G ports in a single chassis | — |
| Fabric modules | — | Up to 6 rear fabric modules |
| Max ports | — | Up to 1024 100G ports or 256 400G ports in a single chassis |
| Operating modes | — | NX-OS standalone spine or Cisco ACI spine |
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