HPE Aruba Networking Switches for SMBs

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 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 10 GbE 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 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.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5140 HI delivers high availability and scalability at the access layer of medium and large enterprise campus networks.
These switches offer high speed connectivity and flexibility with 10GbE uplinks and combo ports. Support for add-on modules increases capacity with additional features. It is a highly cost-effective switch with abundant features such as DRNI and IRF for improved resiliency, QoS features for better reliability, iNQA for real time network health performance and capacity visibility, hardware-based MACsec for end-to-end encrypted security, and dual redundant power supplies with Energy Efficient Ethernet for improved power saving.
This switch series also includes Smart MC at no additional cost and, when combined with Intelligent Management Center (IMC), provides both embedded network management and enhanced network visibility.

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 9300 Switch Series provides 25.6 Tbps, 1U fixed configuration that supports 32 ports of 100/400GbE. This series is designed to provide flexible, cost-effective, high-density 400GbE for servers, storage, and intra-fabric connectivity.

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 9300 Switch Series protects enterprises’ investment as it transitions server farms from 10GbE and 25GbE to 100GbE/400GbE EVPN-VXLAN spine configurations, with reduced power and a smaller footprint. The CX 9300-32D switch supports large data center PODS of up to 16834 x 25GbE servers or up to 8192 x 100GbE servers when using 4 x 100G SN transceivers.

The HPE FlexFabric 5980 Switch Series is a high-performance and low-latency 10 GbE top-of-rack, data center switch designed to meet the increasing requirements for higher-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage traffic, the capability to handle virtual environments, and low latency. The switch includes 100Gbps uplink technology and is ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers or at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises.

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 Juniper Networking QFX5140 Switch Series is a next-generation 1 RU fixed-configuration data center switch for AI fabrics and spine/leaf (including border leaf) deployments, delivering high bandwidth, low latency, and operational efficiency. Powered by the Broadcom Trident 5 ASIC with 112G PAM4 SerDes, it provides up to 16 Tbps switching capacity with native 400G and 800G interfaces and flexible breakout up to 160x 100G for rapid scale out. Optimized for predictable, low-jitter inference traffic with low microsecond latency and right-sized on-chip buffering, it also supports RoCEv2 and modern congestion management (PFC, DCQCN, dynamic load balancing) to enable efficient GPU-to-GPU communication while maintaining Ethernet flexibility.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5960 is a high-performance, high-density top-of-rack (ToR) switch designed for enterprise data centers, cloud service providers, and telco environments. With multiple connectivity options including 400G and 100G QSFP28 ports, these switches offer exceptional performance and improved power savings.
VXLAN/EVPN and DRNI improve scalability and resiliency, while modern software features enable a dynamic and highly available network. HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) support provides centralized configuration, compliance, policy management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. HPE IMC Orchestrator and Analyzer are also supported for data center fabric orchestration and application telemetry.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5965 is a high-performance, high-density top-of-rack (ToR) switch designed for enterprise data centers, cloud service providers, and telco environments. With multiple connectivity options including 400 G and 100 G QSFP28® ports, these switches offer exceptional performance and improved power savings.

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN), along with Distributed Resilient Network Interconnect (DRNI), improve scalability and resiliency, while modern software features enable a dynamic and highly available network. HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) support provides centralized configuration, compliance, policy management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. HPE IMC Orchestrator and Analyzer are also supported for data center fabric orchestration and application telemetry.