HPE Aruba CX 8400 vs Juniper EX Series EX9208
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Aruba CX 8400 is an enterprise modular chassis core and aggregation switch designed for massive campus and datacenter backbones. The Juniper EX9208 is an 8-slot 8U modular enterprise campus core and aggregation chassis switch.
| HPE Aruba CX 8400 | Juniper EX Series EX9208 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Mar 2013 |
| Form factor | 8-slot modular chassis | modular 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 | — |
| Slots | — | 8 slots (2 routing engine/switch fabric slots, 6 payload line card slots) |
| Height | — | 8U rack enclosure with redundant fans and power feeds |
| Throughput | — | Up to 4.8 Tbps switching capacity / up to 480 Gbps per payload slot |
| Redundancy | — | Dual hot-swappable routing engines, N+1 power supply redundancy, and redundant fan trays |
| Software | — | Junos OS with MPLS, VPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, and carrier-class high availability |
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