The new series consists of five, 1U fixed-port switches for high throughput and ease-of-operations to edge environments (retailers and other remote locations) connecting via Aruba Central and other cloud providers to regional and corporate data centres. Aruba noted that its AOS-CX operating system and integrated management tools (Aruba NetEdit and Aruba Network Analytics) can be used to create procedures for day-to-day management tasks, reducing deployment time from days to minutes. The company added that cost savings can also be had: companies can deploy the switches with as few as 12 ports on some models. The CX 8360 family spans from 12 to 48 ports, at line-rate speeds from 1 to 100 GbE.
The switches can be used for enterprise edge locations and campus cores, as well as inside regional and headquarters-based data centres that require top-of-rack server connectivity in traditional spine and leaf architectures. Finally, Aruba said the switches carry no additional software licensing costs for management tools that provide advanced Layer 2/Layer3 functionality and features that create modern cloud-native, end-to-end infrastructures.
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