Switches

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 Switch Series serves as both a campus (core and aggregation) and data center (ToR and EoR) switch. This game-changing solution offers an innovative approach to dealing with network demands in the mobile, cloud, and IoT era. CX 8325 Switch Series is based on AOS-CX, with its microservices style modular architecture, REST APIs, Python scripting capabilities and NAE is a modern software system that automates and simplifies critical and complex network tasks, delivers enhanced fault tolerance and facilitates zero-service disruption during planned or unplanned control-plane events. CX 8325 provides line rate 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, and 40GbE in a compact 1U form factor.

CX 8325P, delivers key solutions for providers in their 5G (Radio Access Network) and edge computing deployments. CX 8325H are high-performance 1/10/25/40/100G half-width switches ideal for smaller, edge or colocation data centers, and wide variety of compute and storage networking use cases.

HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5720 is designed to cater to diverse customer needs. This cost-effective access switch offers hybrid SFP+ and 10GBASE-T options, along with multigigabit support on 10GBASE-T ports, allowing scalability from 10GbE SFP+ to 100G QSFP28.
These data center leaf / access layer switches come with MACsec support and 10GBASE-T additional modules. Features such as distributed resilient network interconnect (DRNI) and HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) enhance network resiliency while redundant pluggable power supplies provide a dynamic and highly available network.
Moreover, these switches support HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), which delivers a consistent network manageability experience. Streamline network management processes for greater efficiency through centralized configuration, compliance, policy management, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5945 are high-density, ultra-low-latency, and top-of-rack (ToR) switches ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers. The HPE 5945 Series is also powerful enough for deployment at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises. With the increase in virtualized applications and server-to-server traffic, customers require spine and ToR switches that can meet their throughput requirements. With the HPE 5945 Series, data centers can now support up to 100GbE per port, allowing high performance server connectivity and the capabilities to handle virtual environments. The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5945 provides choices that fit your budget and IT environment by cut-through with ultra-low-latency and wire speed, offering different port density and speeds of 100GbE/40GbE/25GbE/10GbE spine/ToR connectivity.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 12900E is a next-generation modular data center core switch designed to support virtualized data centers and the evolving needs of private and public cloud deployments. It offers unprecedented levels of performance, buffering, scale, and availability with high-density 1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE,100GbE and 400GbE connectivity. The switch series includes 1-, 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-slot chassis. Ready for software-defined networking (SDN), the HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 12900E supports a full Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set as well as advanced data center features to build resilient scalable fabrics and deliver outstanding convergence times.

The HPE FlexNetwork 5600 HI Switch Series delivers superior performance using Multigigabit, PoE8, MACsec, AES 256 encryption, link flexibility, and scalability at the access layer of medium and large enterprise campus networks. Additional modules can be included for increased capacity. This series offers improved resiliency with DRNI and IRF, better reliability and performance in user Quality of Service (QoS), enhanced security with hardware-based MACsec and AAA authentication, impressive efficiency with dual redundant power supplies, embedded network management using Smart MC and enhanced network visibility using IMC.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5710 are purpose built top-of-rack data center switches that address the growth of Web, cloud and dense virtualized environments that require high performance 1/10GbE server connectivity, direct attached IP storage networking and GbE out-of-band server management. The 5710 Series switch is a family of fixed high-performance and low-latency 1/10GbE top-of-rack data center switches designed for small to mid-size data center rack server connectivity. The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5710 provides choices that fit your budget and IT environment by offering different port density and speeds (1/10G) SFP+ or 10BASE-T with 40 and 100GbE high speed uplinks options. Although affordability priced, the 5710 Series switch offers a comprehensive set of data center features including full support for Layer 2, Layer 3, IPv4 and IPv6 networking protocols at no additional cost for these advanced features.

HPE Networking Comware 5120v3 Campus Switch Series offers cost-effective high-performance Gigabit Ethernet connectivity tailored for small organizations with limited IT personnel. PoE+ ports seamlessly support voice, video, and wireless applications. Fanless design helps ensures silent operation while the compact size allows flexible placement options. Embedded power supplies help minimize heat dissipation, promoting a cool and reliable networking environment.
These switches offer advanced functionalities such as IRF stacking that enables higher redundancy and reliability, while access control lists (ACLs) empower network administrators to enforce security policies, manage traffic, and safeguard network resources.
This switch series also includes SmartMC at no additional cost, and when combined with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), it provides both embedded network management and enhanced network visibility.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5140 EI delivers scalability, high availability, and low TCO at the access layer of medium and large enterprise campus networks. The series offers enterprise-class QoS and security, HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) stacking, static layer 3 routing and RIP; convenient fixed 10GbE uplink ports, PoE+, ACLs, and IPv6; and delivers energy savings with Energy Efficient Ethernet.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5140 EI also includes Smart Management Center (SmartMC), an embedded network management tool that can be leveraged at no additional cost by small and medium networks for centralized management and operations. The series can also be managed with HPE Aruba Networking IMC for a single view of your entire network.

The HPE FlexFabric 5940 Switch Series is a family of high-performance and low-latency 10GbE and 40GbE top-of-rack (ToR) data center switches. The 5940 Switch includes 100G uplink technology which is part of the HPE FlexFabric data center solution and is a cornerstone of the FlexNetwork architecture.
The 5940 Switch is suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers or at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises. It is optimized for high-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage traffic, and virtual environments.

The HPE FlexFabric 5900 Switch Series are high density, low latency Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches suited for deployment at the access layer and management network of medium-sized and large enterprise data centers.
To meet the increased demand for virtualization, scalability, and programmability, these switches provide high performance switching with low latency and user friendly OS (Comware v7). Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) helps in simpler, flatter, and agile networks by combining multiple physical switches into a logical device. Network and security features coupled with dual, redundant hot swappable power-supplies provide investment protection, reliability, and availability, and allow advanced chassis power management.
These switches also provide network visibility through multi-vendor network management with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC).