Overview:
The Aruba CX 8360 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 2.4Tbps of capacity, with line-rate Gigabit Ethernet interfaces including 1Gbps, 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps, and 100Gbps
The 8360 series includes industry-leading line rate ports with 1/10/25GbE (SFP/SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100 GbE (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 wanting to migrate from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from 10GbE/40GbE uplinks to 100GbE ports.
In addition, the 32 x 25G port 8360 models support lowdensity MACsec ports and enable secured connectivity at 10GbE and 25GbE over unsecured domains.
Key Features
- High-performance 2.4Tbps and 1,145 Mpps
- Intelligent monitoring and visibility with Aruba Network Analytics Engine
- High availability with industry-leading VSX redundancy, and redundant power supplies and fans
- Designed for core/aggregation in the campus or Top of Rack or End of Row in the data center
- MACsec secured connectivity over untrusted domains
- AOS-CX automation and programmability using builtin REST APIs and Python scripts
- Advanced Layer 2/3 feature set includes BGP, OSPF, VRF-Lite, and IPv6
- Compact 1U switch with 1/10/25GbE and 40/100GbE connectivity
Benefits:
The Aruba CX 8360 offers a flexible and innovative approach to addressing the application, security, and scalability demands of emerging end-to-end, enterprise edge-cloud network connectivity requirements.
Simplify your IT operations
Offering a combination of cutting-edge hardware, a cloud-native operating system, and intuitive software-defined orchestration tools, the CX 8360 helps to simplify operations, improve IT efficiency, and enable always-on network availability.
Accelerate IT provisioning
Aruba Fabric Composer, a smart, software-defined orchestration solution, simplifies operations, increases network speed, and enhances overall infrastructure provisioning.
Unique high availability
The ability of ArubaOS-CX to maintain a synchronous state across dual control planes allows a unique high- availability solution called Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX). VSX is delivered through redundancy gained by deploying two chassis with an inter-switch link, with each chassis maintaining its independent control.
Increased visibility and control
Aruba AIOps offers real-time, network-wide visibility with analytics in every switch. Aruba’s next-generation AI uniquely combines network and user-centric analytics to not only identify and inform staff of anomalies, but also apply decades of networking expertise to analyze and provide prescriptive actions with greater than 95% accuracy.
Features:
The Aruba CX 8360 offers a flexible and innovative approach to addressing the application, security, and scalability demands of emerging end-to-end, enterprise edge-cloud network connectivity requirements.
High performance
Provides up to 2.4Tbps for bidirectional switching and 1,145Mpps for forwarding to meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications today and in the future.
Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX
Offering high availability, fast wire-speed, a compact 1U switch delivers 1/10/25GbE and 40/100GbE connectivity even during live upgrades.
Secure communications
MACsec secured connectivity over untrusted domains.
Core Layer Switching options
Advanced Layer 2/3 feature set includes BGP, OSPF, VRF, and IPv6.
Product Differentiators:
- Modular Architecture with native cloud-native
ArubaOS-CX
- Aruba Network Analytics Engine
- Aruba Virtual Switching Extension
- Performance
- Connectivity
- Quality of Service (QoS) features
- High availability and resiliency
- Management
- Layer 2 Switching
- Layer 3 Services
- Layer 3 Routing
- Multicast
