cisco Nexus 7700 Nexus 7718 vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
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 Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| cisco Nexus 7700 Nexus 7718 | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 18 | — |
| Supervisor slots | Slots 9 and 10 (redundant supervisor modules) | — |
| Line card slots | 16 payload slots (Slots 1-8, 11-18) | — |
| Chassis height | 26U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 83 Tbps system bandwidth | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| Fabric architecture | 6 orthogonal rear fabric modules | — |
| Port scale | Up to 768 10G, 384 40G, or 192 100G ports in a single chassis | — |
| 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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