HPE Aruba Networking Switches for SMBs

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5150 HI is a family of stackable L3 access switches powered by HPE Comware 9 delivering scalability and resiliency for medium and large enterprise campus networks.

With 24 and 48 MACsec-256 enabled 1 GbE downlink ports, 6x10/25 GbE uplinks, hot swappable dual power and fans, and up to 90 watts of 802.3bt PoE per port, this flexible series delivers security and performance for your clients, servers, and IoT devices. Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) stacking up to 9 members adds scale and high availability while Intelligent Network Quality Analyzer (iNQA) supports real-time visibility into network health and performance.

Network visibility, management, and operation tools for this series include standard CLI and the Smart Management Center (SmartMC), embedded and ready to use at no additional cost. The series integrates with HPE Aruba Networking IMC, delivering a centralized point of control for your entire network.

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.

Do your high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications need ever-increasing networking performance to address problems with massive datasets, complex and highly-parallelized algorithms in an extreme-scale system? NVIDIA® Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Switches for HPE deliver 800 Gb/s throughput, with ultra-low latency and advanced NVIDIA In-Network Computing, which is essential for handling trillion-parameter-scale generative AI. NVIDIA Quantum-3 family of fixed-con figuration switches revolutionizes the performance, scalability, and efficiency of HPC and AI infrastructures, enabling faster and more effective AI processing and computation. These switches are available in both 4U and 2U systems; also incorporate remote direct-memory access (RDMA), the 4th gen NVIDIA Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP)™, adaptive routing, telemetry-based congestion control, self-healing, and Quantum-X Photonics co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies.

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 Juniper QFX5250 line of Switches is the world’s highest-performance, liquid-cooled, Ultra Ethernet Transport ready switch designed for next-generation AI infrastructure. Built on Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 silicon with 102.4 Tbps bandwidth, the switch is optimized for performance, power efficiency, and operational simplicity. It brings decades of innovation in Juniper Junos software, HPE liquid-cooling leadership, and proven AIOps from Marvis AI.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5600 HI 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 management center (SmartMC) and enhanced network visibility using IMC.

The HPE Aruba Networking 2930M Switch Series is designed for digital workplaces optimized for mobile users. These powerful Layer 3 access switches are easy to deploy and manage with advanced security and network management tools like HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager, HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) and cloud-based HPE Aruba Networking Central. Modular stacking, uplinks and power provide scalability and simplicity for enterprise edge, SMB and branch office networks. The HPE Aruba Networking 2930M Switch Series delivers performance and value with support for static, RIP and Access OSPF routing, 10 GbE and 40 GbE uplinks, models with 24 ports of HPE Smart Rate multi-gigabit Ethernet, up to 1440W of PoE, robust QoS, and Dynamic Segmentation for unified and secure access.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5520 HI delivers superior performance, high availability and manageability with advanced features at the access and aggregation layer of medium and large enterprise networks.

These switches deliver faster performance and advanced L3 features with support for larger ARP/MAC tables and Longest Prefix Match (LPM). VXLAN and EVPN enable greater scalability. Support for Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) and Bi-directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) provide resiliency. Intelligent Resilient framework (IRF) ensures high availability. Support for IPv4/IPv6, OpenFlow, and MPLS/VPLS features for investment protection with an easy transition from IPv4 to IPv6 networks.

These switches also include SmartMC at no additional cost, and when combined with Intelligent Management Center (IMC), it provides both embedded network management and enhanced network visibility.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5900 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 a user-friendly operating system (OS) Comware v7. HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) helps create simpler, flatter, and more 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).

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5150 EI is a family of stackable L3 access switches powered by HPE Comware OS delivering scalability and resiliency at a modest TCO for small, medium, and large enterprise campus networks.

With 8, 24, and 48 gigabit ports, options for mixed copper and fiber connectivity, and up to 30 watts of 802.3at PoE per port this flexible series is ready to connect your edge clients, servers, and IoT devices. Built-in 10 GbE uplinks and  Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) stacking up to 9-members adds scale, resiliency, and simplification to your access network, enabling network operators to manage the whole stack as a single logical switch.

Network visibility, management, and operation tools for this series include standard CLI and the Smart Management Center (SmartMC), embedded and ready to use at no additional cost. The series integrates with HPE Aruba Networking IMC, delivering a centralized point of control for your entire network.