Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced a new enterprise core and aggregation switch and the industry's most advanced operating system, ArubaOS-CX, designed for modern mobility, and IoT requirements. Taking a leap beyond today's antiquated switching platforms,Aggregation Routers the Aruba 8400 Core Switch Series and ArubaOS-CX are purpose-built for emerging mobile-cloud business applications and changing traffic patterns that are being driven by the massive flood of data sources and growth in IoT.
Gartner estimates that by 2020, there will be 20.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to enterprise networks1. Despite this rapidly changing technology and business landscape, network core switches have seen very little design and software innovation over the past few decades. Organizations are rapidly moving to mobile and cloud-based networks to accommodate these new applications and ?°things.?± However, incumbent core switch technology has not kept up with the resulting surge in network traffic, the added complexity of the environment, and the increasing need forvisibility and insights, and quick remediation.
The Aruba 8400 Switch Series delivers a breakthrough in campus core and aggregation, extending intelligence from the edge to the core and allowing CIOs to derive better business outcomes from their networks. While the Aruba 8400 provides the carrier-class availability and performance that organizations need in a core switch, the innovation goes beyond table stakes to address the need for immediate visibility, greater security, better insights into troubleshooting, and easier automation, giving enterprises true business agility as they move to mobile-first, cloud, and IoT-enabled businesses.Automated Visibility for Early Detection: The innovative Aruba Network Analytics Engine allows IT professionals to easily monitor network, system and application and security-related activities with simple rules-based monitoring and automatic correlation of network activities.
This engine comes with a native time-series database combined with event correlation to enable operators to instantly detect problems, analyze trends to quickly gain insight, and predict or avoid issues that often lead toscale and security, and performance bottlenecks. Although the Aruba 8400's intelligence and programmable software make the solution unique, the switch is also designed from the ground up with the performance, reliability, and scalability of today's modern networks in mind. The Aruba 8400's fully extensible fabric design enables seamless upgrades so enterprises can scale as their bandwidth needs increase. The Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) with two chassis scales up to 512 10GbE, 128 40Gbe or 96 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports.