Cisco Nexus 9508 vs HPE Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9508 is an 8-slot modular datacenter chassis switch delivering massive port density and switching capacity for enterprise cloud cores and hyperscale ACI spine fabrics. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| Cisco Nexus 9508 | HPE Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Nov 2013 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 8 | — |
| Supervisor engine slots | 2 redundant supervisor engine slots | — |
| Line card payload slots | 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Fabric slots | Up to 6 orthogonal fabric modules | — |
| Chassis height | 13U rack mount | — |
| System throughput | Up to 115.2 Tbps with GX2 line cards | — |
| Port densities | Up to 512 100G ports or 128 400G ports in a single chassis | — |
| Form factor | — | 8U 8-slot modular enterprise chassis |
| Switching capacity | — | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| 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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