The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8360 v2 Switch Series offers a flexible and innovative approach to addressing the application, security, and scalability demands of the mobile, cloud, and IoT era. These switches serve the needs of the next-generation core and aggregation layer of campuses, as well as virtual and highly dynamic data center environments. They provide up to 4.8Tbps of capacity, with line-rate Gigabit Ethernet interfaces including support for Smart Rate (1/2.5, 5 Gbps), 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps, 50 Gbps, and 100Gbps.
The CX 8360 series includes industry leading line rate ports with 1/10/25/50GbE (SFP/SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity in a compact 1U form factor.
4x10Gbps and 4x25Gbps break out from 40/100G ports offer advanced flexibility in connectivity and aggregation. These switches deliver a fantastic investment for customers wanting to migrate from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE uplinks to 50/100GbE ports.
In addition, the 48 and 32 x 25G port 8360 models support low-density MACsec ports and enable secured connectivity at 10GbE and 25GbE over unsecured domains. MACsec is also supported on 2 high-speed 40/100G ports on the CX 8360 48-port model.
Product differentiators
The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8360 switch series is based on HPE Aruba Networking OS-CX, a modern, database driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex tasks. The enhanced capabilities of HPE Aruba Networking OS-CX provide a unique set of differentiators for campus and data center switching.
Every CX switch includes HPE Aruba Networking OS-CX at no cost and with an active, perpetual set of native features which has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network, including:
- HPE Aruba Networking 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 HPE Aruba Networking NetEdit
In addition to the native features available in HPE Aruba Networking OS-CX, we offer an optional, term-based HPE Aruba Networking CX Advanced Feature Pack that unlocks container infrastructure that can host HPE certified applications for flexible and reliable IT services.
