Cisco Nexus 9516 vs HPE Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. 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. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| Cisco Nexus 9516 | HPE Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2014 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Chassis slots | 16 | — |
| Line card slots | 16 payload line card slots | — |
| Supervisor slots | 2 redundant supervisor engine slots | — |
| Fabric modules | Up to 6 rear fabric modules | Up to 3 active fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Chassis height | 21U rack mount | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 230.4 Tbps | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| 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 | — |
| 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) |
| 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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