The HPE Aruba Networking CX 8100 Switch Series offers a flexible and innovative approach to addressing the application, security, and scalability demands of the mobile, cloud, and IoT era. These switches serve the needs of the next-generation core and aggregation layer of campuses, as well as virtual and highly dynamic data center environments. They provide up to 1.76 Tbps of capacity, with line-rate Gigabit Ethernet interfaces including support for Smart Rate (1/2.5/5 Gbps), 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps, and 100Gbps.
The CX 8100 series includes industry leading line rate ports with 1/10GbE (SFP/ SFP+) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) connectivity in a compact 1U form factor. 4x10Gbps and 4x25Gbps break out from 40/100G ports offer advanced flexibility in connectivity and aggregation.
These switches deliver a fantastic investment for customers requiring 1GbE/10GbEwith a mix of fiber and copper ports, and 40/100GbE uplink ports.
Modular Architecture with native cloud-native AOS-CX The HPE Aruba Networking CX Operating System (AOS-CX) is a modern, database-driven operating system that automates and simplifies many critical and complex network tasks. Every CX switch includes AOS-CX at no cost and with an active, perpetual set of native features which has everything needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an enterprise network, including:
• HPE Aruba Networking Analytics Engine (NAE)
• Dynamic Segmentation
• High Availability and Resiliency
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Layer 2 Switching
• Layer 3 Services and Routing
• IP Multicast
• Network Security
• Support for HPE Aruba Networking Net Edit