Aruba Distributed Services Switches
Delivering distributed, intelligent services closer to your applications. Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando is a new category of data center switch that combines best-of-breed L2/L3 switching with the industry's first hardware-accelerated services processor.
Distributed Services Solutions
Hardware-accelerated services combined with best-of-breed switching for modern data center environments.
Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando
A new category of switches combining best-of-breed L2/L3 switching with hardware-accelerated programmable processor.
- Industry's first hardware-accelerated programmable processor (Pensando P4)
- Stateful services inline at wire-rate performance
- Orders of magnitude scaling improvements
Aruba Fabric Composer
Unified network, security, and firewall policy configuration for the CX10000 solution.
- Primary network and security engine
- All configurations orchestrated centrally
- Firewall policy definitions
Pensando DSP for HPE Servers
PCI form factor option for HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo, and HPE Edgeline servers.
- Extends intelligent services into data center fabric
- Addresses brownfield deployments
- Infrastructure agnostic environments
Data Volume and Velocity Overwhelms Traditional Networks
Centralized security architectures cannot handle emerging microservices-based traffic patterns, often leaving enterprises vulnerable to attacks.
Centralized security appliances are inefficient and expensive at inspecting and protecting east-west application traffic within the data center. Hair-pinning traffic to an appliance sitting at the data center edge slows performance, limits scale, and increases cost.
Virtualized and containerized application traffic often stays local to the physical rack, host, or VM. This means some application traffic is never inspected by a hardware firewall or other security device—leaving enterprises vulnerable to attacks from within the enterprise itself.
The trend is to unify network and security provisioning to ensure consistent policy enforcement, streamline operations, and provide end-to-end observability.
Why Choose Distributed Services Switches
Transform your data center with hardware-accelerated, distributed security services.
Wire-Rate Performance
Deliver stateful services inline at scale with wire-rate performance, eliminating bottlenecks in traditional architectures.
Zero Trust Security
Implement microsegmentation and stateful firewall policies at the switch level for comprehensive east-west traffic protection.
Pensando P4 Processor
Industry's first hardware-accelerated programmable processor purpose-built for distributed services.
Unified Management
Aruba Fabric Composer provides centralized orchestration of network and security policies.
Massive Scale
Orders of magnitude improvements in performance and scaling over traditional L2/L3 switches.
End-to-End Visibility
Complete observability across your data center infrastructure with unified monitoring and analytics.
Ready to Transform Your Data Center?
Let our network specialists help you design a distributed services architecture that delivers security and performance at scale.
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