HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 6410 vs HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Aruba CX 6410 is a 10-slot modular chassis switch delivering massive port density and up to 28 Tbps of switching capacity for large enterprise campus core and high-concurrency aggregation networks. 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 6410 | HPE Aruba CX Aruba CX 8400 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | HPE |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2019 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 10-slot modular chassis | 8-slot modular chassis |
| Form factor | 10U 10-slot modular chassis | 8U 8-slot modular enterprise chassis |
| Line card slots | Up to 8 payload line card slots | — |
| Management modules | Dual hot-swappable management modules | Dual hot-swappable Management Modules (active/standby) |
| Fabric modules | Up to 4 active fabric modules | Up to 3 active fabric modules with N+1 redundancy |
| Switching capacity | Up to 28 Tbps system bandwidth | Up to 19.2 Tbps system bandwidth |
| Throughput | Up to 11.4 Bpps forwarding capacity | — |
| Power supplies | Up to 8 hot-swappable power supplies with N+N or N+1 redundancy | — |
| Forwarding capacity | — | Up to 7.14 Bpps throughput |
| 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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