High-performance data center switching
3.6Tbps of switching capacity, 48 ports of line rate 10/25GbE (SFP/SFP+/SFP28), and 6 40/100GbE ports (QSFP+/QSFP28).

Programmable DPU (Pensando Elba)
800G of distributed stateful firewall for east-west traffic, zero-trust segmentation, pervasive telemetry, and in the future stateful NAT, encryption services.

Unified network and security policy
Centralized switch/network configurations and distributed firewall policy definitions orchestrated by HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer.

Security ecosystem integration
Integration with a wide variety of security and network performance tools including Advanced Security, Application Dependency Mapping and Performance Management.

Specifications

Performance

Switching Capacity 3.6Tbps (bidirectional)
Latency (LIFO) < 1 uSec (without redirect)
< 5 uSec (with redirect)
IPv4 Host Table 120,000
IPv6 Host Table 52,000
IPv4 Unicast Routes 131,072
IPv6 Unicast Routes 32,732

Management

CLI

REST API

SNMP

Aruba Fabric Composer

NetEdit

Aruba Central

Central support will come with Central 2.5.6 (not currently supported)

Mounting and enclosure

Mounts in an EIA standard 19-inch rack or other equipment cabinet; horizontal surface mounting only; order 2-post or 4-post mounting kit separately

Enviornment

Operating Temperature 0° C to 40° C (32° F to 104° F) up to 3.0 km (10,000 ft.)
Operating Relative Humidity 10% to 85% at 40° C (104° F) non-condensing
Non-Operating -40° C to 70° C (-40° F to 158° F) up to 4.6 km (15,000 ft.).