HPE Aruba Networking CX 8320 Switch Series

Game-changing Business Agility

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8320 Switch Series is a campus core and aggregation switch solution with an innovative and powerful approach to dealing with the new applications, security and scalability demands of the mobile, cloud and IoT era.

Fully programmable with HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX), it brings automation and visibility and helps troubleshoot via simple scripting.

HPE Aruba Networking Network Analytics Engine (NAE) provides the ability to monitor and troubleshoot the network, system, application and security related issues easily, through simple python agents and REST APIs.

Offers high-speed fully distributed architecture with 2.5 Tbps switching capacity for always-on networking.

Provides robust security and QoS with advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 features including support for BGP, OSPF, and VRF.

Modern Software System Simplifies and Automates

The CX 8320 is based on HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (AOS-CX), a modern software system for the core that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks.

The built-in time series database enables customers and developers to develop software modules for historical troubleshooting, as well as analysis of historical trends, to predict and avoid future problems due to scale, security and performance bottlenecks.

It includes stability, independent monitoring and restart of individual software modules, and enhanced software process serviceability functions. And it allows individual software modules to be upgraded for higher availability.

High Performance and High Availability

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8320 Switch Series includes a high-speed, fully distributed architecture and provides up to 2.5 Tbps switching capacity to meet the demands and bandwidth-intensive applications today and in the future.

High availability with HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) is designed to deliver continuous availability, virtualization and simplicity requirements unique to the core of the network. Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and fans provide additional resiliency.

This compact 1U switch delivers line rate 10GbE and 40GbE connectivity with very low latency for support of full Internet routes. Optimize for your deployment with a model that provides 32 ports of 40GbE, and models with 48 ports of 10GbE (SFP/SFP+ or 10GBASE-T) with 6 ports of 40GbE.