Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B vs HPE Aruba CX 9300
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B is a compact 1U 400GbE datacenter spine and leaf switch powered by Cisco Cloud Scale GX2 silicon. The Aruba CX 9300-32D is a high-density 1U 100/400GbE fixed-configuration spine and leaf switch engineered for hyperscale enterprise datacenters, AI clusters, and cloud service providers.
| Cisco Nexus 9332D-GX2B | HPE Aruba CX 9300 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 1U fixed 400G switch |
| Ports | 32x 400G QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) | 32x 400GbE QSFP-DD ports (backward compatible with 100G/200G) |
| Switching capacity | 25.6 Tbps bidirectional bandwidth | 25.6 Tbps bidirectional switching bandwidth |
| Forwarding throughput | Up to 5.7 Bpps | — |
| Form factor | 1U rack mount | 1U fixed datacenter switch |
| Security | Line-rate MACsec-256 encryption standard across all ports | — |
| Workloads | Artificial intelligence clusters, cloud spine layers, and 400G datacenter fabrics | — |
| Forwarding rate | — | Up to 5.68 Bpps |
| Datacenter features | — | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2, PFC, ECN, and deep packet telemetry |
| Cooling and power | — | Hot-swappable 5+1 redundant fans and dual hot-swap power supplies |
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