HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 6405 vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Aruba CX 6405 is a 5-slot high-density modular chassis switch engineered for enterprise campus aggregation and core layers. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones.
| HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 6405 | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 5-slot modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Form factor | 5U 5-slot modular chassis | 8U 8-slot modular enterprise chassis |
| Management slots | Dual redundant Management Modules (active/standby) | — |
| Fabric slots | Up to 4 fabric modules | — |
| Line card slots | Up to 5 line card slots (or 4 with dual management) | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 14 Tbps switching bandwidth | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| Port density | Up to 120 1GbE/Smart Rate ports or 96 10G/25G SFP28 ports | — |
| High availability | Non-Stop Switching (VSX), Non-Stop Routing, live software updates | Hitless stateful failover, VSX multi-chassis bonding, and non-stop routing |
| 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) |
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