Switches & Bridges

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Series Switch delivers a flexible and innovative approach to address the security performance, agility, and scalability demands of both traditional enterprise data centers and emerging distributed, edge and co-located "Centers of Data". The switch helps network and security administrators distribute intelligence to the data center network-server edge, overcoming legacy network and security design limitations that often require overly complex, highly inefficient, and costly architectures designed to address decades old requirement. The switch combines the best-of-breed network operating system, Aruba AOS-CX, for data center, campus, and edge in addition to the fully programmable AMD Pensando DPU. This allows the CX 10000 to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO. The switch allows operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with distributed stateful segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT, encryption, and telemetry services-all delivered inline, all the time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise applications run. The switches distributed services architecture is agnostic of network deployment architecture. This allows the flexibility to enable stateful services delivery, when deployed as access, leaf Top of Rack (ToR), or End of Row (EoR) in a datacenter, and potentially in the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center designs. The switches offers 3.6Tbps of line-rate switching capacity with interface configurations supporting 1/10/25GbE (SFP/ SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity, in a compact 1U form factor. Consequently, offer a fantastic investment for customers migrating from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE to 100GbE ports

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATORS | AOS-CX-A modern software system

The switch is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as past trends analysis. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks. AOS-CX operating system features are organized into Aruba CX Foundation and Aruba CX Advanced software licenses. Every Aruba CX switch includes an active, perpetual AOS-CX Foundation license at no additional cost with the option to upgrade to an CX Advanced license. The CX Foundation license has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network, including:

• Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE)
• Dynamic Segmentation
• Switch Stacking
• High Availability and Resiliency
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Layer 2 Switching
• Layer 3 Services and Routing
• IP Multicast
• Network Security
• Support for Aruba NetEdit

The switch requires an additional Aruba CX Advanced license to extend the CX Foundation network features with distributed, accelerated stateful firewall, pervasive telemetry services, and visibility and assurance with CX Edge Insights.The switch can further be upgraded with the Aruba CX Premium license that includes all CX Foundation and Advanced functionality and adds accelerated IPSec VPN Encryption, NAT, and additional network and security services at a future date.

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Series Switch delivers a flexible and innovative approach to address the security performance, agility, and scalability demands of both traditional enterprise data centers and emerging distributed, edge and co-located "Centers of Data". The switch helps network and security administrators distribute intelligence to the data center network-server edge, overcoming legacy network and security design limitations that often require overly complex, highly inefficient, and costly architectures designed to address decades old requirement. The switch combines the best-of-breed network operating system, Aruba AOS-CX, for data center, campus, and edge in addition to the fully programmable AMD Pensando DPU. This allows the CX 10000 to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO. The switch allows operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with distributed stateful segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT, encryption, and telemetry services-all delivered inline, all the time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise applications run. The switches distributed services architecture is agnostic of network deployment architecture. This allows the flexibility to enable stateful services delivery, when deployed as access, leaf Top of Rack (ToR), or End of Row (EoR) in a datacenter, and potentially in the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center designs. The switches offers 3.6Tbps of line-rate switching capacity with interface configurations supporting 1/10/25GbE (SFP/ SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity, in a compact 1U form factor. Consequently, offer a fantastic investment for customers migrating from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE to 100GbE ports

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATORS | AOS-CX-A modern software system

The switch is based on AOS-CX, a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. A built-in time series database enables customers and developers to utilize software scripts for historical troubleshooting, as well as past trends analysis. This helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security, and performance bottlenecks. AOS-CX operating system features are organized into Aruba CX Foundation and Aruba CX Advanced software licenses. Every Aruba CX switch includes an active, perpetual AOS-CX Foundation license at no additional cost with the option to upgrade to an CX Advanced license. The CX Foundation license has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network, including:

• Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE)
• Dynamic Segmentation
• Switch Stacking
• High Availability and Resiliency
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Layer 2 Switching
• Layer 3 Services and Routing
• IP Multicast
• Network Security
• Support for Aruba NetEdit

The switch requires an additional Aruba CX Advanced license to extend the CX Foundation network features with distributed, accelerated stateful firewall, pervasive telemetry services, and visibility and assurance with CX Edge Insights.The switch can further be upgraded with the Aruba CX Premium license that includes all CX Foundation and Advanced functionality and adds accelerated IPSec VPN Encryption, NAT, and additional network and security services at a future date.

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series is a modern, flexible, and intelligent family of AOS-CX stackable switches ideal for access, aggregation, and data center top-of-rack (TOR) deployments. With a cloud-centric design that combines a fully programmable OS with the HPE Aruba Networwing Analytics Engine, the CX 6300 extends industry-leading monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to the access layer. Support of HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit and HPE CX Mobile App verify that configurations are flawless and easy to deploy.

A powerful HPE Aruba Gen7 ASIC architecture delivers fast, non-blocking performance, meaning your network is ready for tomorrow's unpredictable demands. HPE Virtual Stacking Framework (VSF) allows for stacking of up to 10 switches, providing scale and simplified management. This flexible series has built-in highspeed uplinks and supports high density IEEE 802.3bt high power PoE with HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet for high speed APs and IoT devices.

• Stackable Layer 3 switches with BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, VRF, and OSPF with robust security and QoS. Now supporting MACsec 256, PTP, AVB and LRM.
• High performance 880 to 1760 Gbps system switching capacity, 660 to 1310 MPPS of system throughput and up to 200 to 400 Gbps stacking bandwidth.
• Series includes full density HPE Smart Rate (1/2.5/5GbE) multi-gigabit and up to 90W PoE, SFP+ model and switch bundle with power-to-port airflow for data center 1GbE ToR and OOBM deployments.
• Built-in high speed 10/25/40/50/100GbE uplinks (50GbE for DAC connectivity only) with intelligent monitoring and visibility via the Network Analytics Engine.
• Manage via single pane of glass with HPE Aruba Networking Central across wired, wireless, and WAN Dynamic Segmentation enables enhanced security and simple access for users and IoT.
• Three stackable, high-performance CX 6300L Layer 2-only; access switches with HPE Smart Rate Multi-Gigabit and MACsec encryption.

Automation and Analytics

• The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series delivers unparalleled visibility with built-in analytics for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting to help fix problems faster. The HPE Analytics Engine (NAE) automatically interrogates and analyzes events that can impact network health.
• Advanced telemetry and automation provide the ability to easily identify and troubleshoot network, system, application and security related issues easily, through the use of Python agents and REST APIs.
• The Time Series Database (TSDB) stores configuration and operational state data, making it available to quickly resolve network issues.
• HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit support provides automation that allows for rapid network-wide changes, and helps ensure policy conformance post network updates.

Performance and Power

• The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series uses a fully distributed architecture with HPE Aruba Gen7 ASICs that deliver very low latency, increased packet buffering, and adaptive power consumption. All switching and routing are wire-speed to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications.
• HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) allows you to quickly grow your network using high performance front plane stacking. Four built-in QSFP28 ports support speeds of 1/10/25/50GbE (50GbE for DAC connectivity only) for a total of up to 200 Gbps of stacking throughput per switch.
• The S0E91A switch model also supports QSFP28 uplink speeds of 40 GbE and 100 GbE for up to 400 Gbps of stacking throughput.
• Deploy wireless access points and IoT devices with HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 models that offer h
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The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series is a modern, flexible, and intelligent family of AOS-CX stackableswitchesideal for access, aggregation, and data center top-of-rack (TOR) deployments. With a cloud-centric design that combines a fully programmable OS with the HPE Aruba Networwing Analytics Engine, the CX 6300 extends industry-leading monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to the access layer. Support of HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit and HPE CX Mobile App verify that configurations are flawless and easy to deploy.

A powerful HPE Aruba Gen7 ASIC architecture delivers fast, non-blocking performance, meaning your network is ready for tomorrow's unpredictable demands. HPE Virtual Stacking Framework (VSF) allows for stacking of up to 10 switches, providing scale and simplified management. This flexible series has built-in highspeed uplinks and supports high density IEEE 802.3bt high power PoE with HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet for high speed APs and IoT devices.

• Stackable Layer 3 switches with BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, VRF, and OSPF with robust security and QoS. Now supporting MACsec 256, PTP, AVB and LRM.
• High performance 880 to 1760 Gbps system switching capacity, 660 to 1310 MPPS of system throughput and up to 200 to 400 Gbps stacking bandwidth.
• Series includes full density HPE Smart Rate (1/2.5/5GbE) multi-gigabit and up to 90W PoE, SFP+ model and switch bundle with power-to-port airflow for data center 1GbE ToR and OOBM deployments.
• Built-in high speed 10/25/40/50/100GbE uplinks (50GbE for DAC connectivity only) with intelligent monitoring and visibility via the Network Analytics Engine.
• Manage via single pane of glass with HPE Aruba Networking Central across wired, wireless, and WAN Dynamic Segmentation enables enhanced security and simple access for users and IoT.
• Three stackable, high-performance CX 6300L Layer 2-only; access switches with HPE Smart Rate Multi-Gigabit and MACsec encryption.

Automation and Analytics

• The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series delivers unparalleled visibility with built-in analytics for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting to help fix problems faster. The HPE Analytics Engine (NAE) automatically interrogates and analyzes events that can impact network health.
• Advanced telemetry and automation provide the ability to easily identify and troubleshoot network, system, application and security related issues easily, through the use of Python agents and REST APIs.
• The Time Series Database (TSDB) stores configuration and operational state data, making it available to quickly resolve network issues.
• HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit support provides automation that allows for rapid network-wide changes, and helps ensure policy conformance post network updates.

Performance and Power

• The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series uses a fully distributed architecture with HPE Aruba Gen7 ASICs that deliver very low latency, increased packet buffering, and adaptive power consumption. All switching and routing are wire-speed to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications.
• HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) allows you to quickly grow your network using high performance front plane stacking. Four built-in QSFP28 ports support speeds of 1/10/25/50GbE (50GbE for DAC connectivity only) for a total of up to 200 Gbps of stacking throughput per switch.
• The S0E91A switch model also supports QSFP28 uplink speeds of 40 GbE and 100 GbE for up to 400 Gbps of stacking throughput.
• Deploy wireless access points and IoT devices with HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 models that offer hig
  Learn More

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series is a modern, flexible, and intelligent family of AOS-CX stackable switches ideal for access, aggregation, and data center top-of-rack (TOR) deployments. With a cloud-centric design that combines a fully programmable OS with the HPE Aruba Networwing Analytics Engine, the CX 6300 extends industry-leading monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to the access layer. Support of HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit and HPE CX Mobile App verify that configurations are flawless and easy to deploy.

A powerful HPE Aruba Gen7 ASIC architecture delivers fast, non-blocking performance, meaning your network is ready for tomorrow's unpredictable demands. HPE Virtual Stacking Framework (VSF) allows for stacking of up to 10 switches, providing scale and simplified management. This flexible series has built-in highspeed uplinks and supports high density IEEE 802.3bt high power PoE with HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet for high speed APs and IoT devices.