Designed with the next generation of large-scale data centers in mind, the Aruba CX 10000 Switch Series delivers a flexible and innovative approach to address the security compliance, performance, agility, and scalability demands of the highly distributed, hybrid, multi-cloud application era.
In conjunction with Pensando, Aruba has defined a new market category of data center switches. The CX 10000 combines the best-of-breed network operating system, Aruba AOS-CX, for data center, campus, and edge in addition to the fully programmable Pensando DPU. This allows the CX 10000 to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO.
The Aruba CX 10000 allows operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with distributed stateful segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT1, encryption, and telemetry services - all delivered inline, all the time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise applications run. The CX 10000 distributed services architecture is agnostic of network deployment architecture. This allows the flexibility to enable stateful services delivery, when deployed as access, leaf Top of Rack (ToR), or End of Row (EoR) in a datacenter, and potentially in the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center designs.
The CX 10000 offers 3.6Tbps of line-rate switching capacity with interface configurations supporting 1/10/25GbE (SFP/ SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity, in a compact 1U form factor. Consequently, these switches offer a fantastic investment for customers migrating from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE to 100GbE ports.