HPE Aruba Networking Switches

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.

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 Aruba Networking CX 8400 Switch Series is a campus core and aggregation switch and a game‑changing solution offering a flexible, innovative approach to address the new application, security and scalability demands of the mobile‑cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) era. The CX 8400 series also serves as a data center switch in a core/aggregation or a leaf/spine topology.

The CX 8400 series provides carrier-class high availability with industry‑leading line rate 10/25/40/100GbE connectivity in a compact 8 slot chassis. It provides up to 19.2 Tbps of switching capacity based on a fully resilient design that includes redundant fabric, management, power and fans to create a resilient, highly available network that is ideal for the most demanding campus core and data center networks. It is based on the HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX), a software that automates and simplifies critical and complex network tasks.

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 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.