Data sheet

HPE Aruba Networking

CX 10000 Switch Series
Deploy software-defined stateful services where data is processed

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040

Product overview HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch

The HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch Series HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 delivers a flexible
helps network and security administrators distribute and innovative approach to address the security
intelligence to the data center network-server edge, performance, agility, and scalability demands of both
overcoming legacy network and security design traditional enterprise data centers and emerging
limitations that often require overly complex, highly distributed, edge, and colocated centers of data.
inefficient, and costly architecture designed to address
decades old requirement. CX 10000 offer 3.2 Tbps of switching capacity with
interface configurations supporting 1/10/25GbE
It combines the best-of-breed network operating (SFP/SFP+/SFP28) and 40/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28)
system, HPE Aruba Networking CX, for data center, connectivity, in a compact 1U form factor. Consequently,
campus, and edge in addition to the fully programmable it offers a fantastic investment for customers migrating
data processing unit (DPU). from older 1GbE/10GbE to faster 25GbE, or from
10GbE/40GbE to 100GbE ports.
This allows the DPU-enabled CX 10000 and
CX 10040 switches to deliver stateful software-defined HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 Switch
services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 built on the
and orders of magnitude scale and performance foundation of the CX 10000 Series, elevates the
improvements over traditional L2/L3 switches at a network fabric to new heights. By delivering double the
fraction of their total cost of ownership (TCO). performance at scale, deeply integrated, near line-rate
security, real-time operational insights, and automation-
The switches allows operators to extend industry- ready simplicity critical for powering the next generation
standard leaf-spine networking with distributed stateful of cloud, AI-driven services, and digital infrastructure.
segmentation, east–west firewalling, NAT, encryption,
and telemetry services — all delivered inline, all the time, HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 offer 8 Tbps
on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise of switching capacity with interface configurations
applications run. supporting 32x100G, 6x400G connectivity, in a
compact 2U form factor supporting east-west traffic
The switches’ distributed services architecture is demands and accelerating application performance.
agnostic of network deployment architecture. This The switch includes 1.6 Tbps of L4 stateful inspection
allows the flexibility to enable stateful services delivery, natively integrated, 4.8 Tbps encryption engine to
when deployed as access, leaf top of rack (ToR), or support MACsec, flexibly assignable to ports, securing
end of row (EoR) in a data center, and potentially in traffic without compromising speed or scalability.
the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center
designs.
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The switch has built-in hardware support for PTP For more information on the HPE Aruba Networking
Boundary Clock1 capabilities and is uniquely positioned Central Advanced license, read the HPE Aruba
to serve the next wave of precision-driven digital Networking CX Switch license ordering guide.
infrastructure. CX 10040 is also NEBS ready, suitable for
telecom or service providers deployments. An HPE Aruba Networking Central Advanced license
expands these capabilities with premium security and
Product capabilities AIOps, including the HPE Aruba Networking Central
NetConductor Fabric Wizard and global policy manager
HPE Aruba Networking CX Operating to enable dynamic segmentation and distributed
System — a modern software system enforcement at a global scale. For more information
The switches are based on the CX Operating System, on HPE Aruba Networking Central licensing, see the
a modern, database‑driven operating system that HPE Aruba Networking Central SaaS Subscription
automates and simplifies many critical and complex ordering guide.
network tasks.
A built-in time series database enables customers Distributed stateful services
and developers to utilize software scripts for historical Embedded natively in the switch, the HPE Aruba
troubleshooting, as well as past trends analysis. This Networking CX Switch Operating System is an industry
helps predict and avoid future problems due to scale, unique, inline stateful software service, enabled through
security, and performance bottlenecks. the AMD Pensando programmable DPU, delivered at
scale with wire-rate performance. The services include
Every CX switch includes HPE Aruba Networking CX stateful firewalling and secure segmentation, distributed
Switch Operating System at no cost and with an active, denial of service (DDoS) protection, deep flow-based
perpetual set of native features that has everything session-level telemetry with logging, enabled natively
needed to deploy, connect, and troubleshoot an in the fabric switching infrastructure without requiring
enterprise network, including: host-based agents or dedicated appliances.
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Network Analytics
Engine (NAE) Operational benefits include:
• Overcoming the design, performance, and cost
• Dynamic segmentation limitations of software only and dedicated appliances
• Switch stacking — protecting the unprotected assets in your data
center
• High availability and resiliency
• Improving security posture, limiting appliance sprawl
• Quality of service (QoS)
• Extending zero trust segmentation deeper into the
• Layer 2 switching
data center for any type of host
• Layer 3 services and routing
• Delivering isolation and multitenancy for virtualized,
• IP multicast bare-metal, or containerized workloads
• Network security • Optimizing network traffic flows, bandwidth, and
performance, which reduces operational complexity
• Support for HPE Aruba Networking Switch Multi-Edit
associated with service stitching
Software
• Overcoming centralized networking service layer
The switch requires an additional HPE Aruba Networking chokepoints, which reduces downtime
Central Advanced license to extend the HPE Aruba
Networking Central Foundational network features • Simplifying operations through unified network and
with distributed, accelerated stateful firewall, pervasive security automation and management with HPE Aruba
telemetry services, and container infrastructure. Networking Fabric Composer
• Addressing deployments where security agents can’t
Please refer the HPE Aruba Networking CX Operating be deployed into servers
System (AOS-CX) data sheet for the complete list of
features supported. • Accelerating infrastructure service provisioning

The switch can further be upgraded with the HPE Aruba • Lowering CapEx/OpEx expenditure on security and
Networking CX Premium Feature Pack that includes services
all HPE Aruba Networking Central Advanced Feature
Pack functionality plus IPSec VPN encryption, NAT, and
additional network and security services at a future date.
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Hardware capable, software support in future release
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HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer Fabric Composer is designed to work with HPE Aruba
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer is an intelligent, Networking CX switches and is optimized for HPE data
API-driven, software-defined orchestration solution that center products and tools such as HPE SimpliVity,
simplifies and accelerates leaf-spine fabric provisioning HPE iLO and Pensando Distributed Services Platform.
and day-to-day operations across rack-scale compute Read the solution overview for detailed capabilities and
and storage infrastructure. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric benefits.
Composer supports deep IT ecosystem integrations,
enables seamless configuration and operational
experience, and is easy to manage, provision, and visualize
the entire end-to-end network (Figure 1).

Including HPE, Aruba, VMware vSphere®, VMware ESX®, NSX and Nutanix

Figure 1. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer dashboard

Unified security policy configuration fabric in a simplified wizard driven workflow. This is
enabled through an integration with AMD Pensando
• Ease of deployment — Beyond traditional zero touch Policy and Services Manager (PSM). The solution
deployment approaches, which require significant allows SecOps and NetOps teams to accelerate
up-front work, AFC user-friendly, guided wizards of application rollouts while helping ensure strict
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer provide compliance and secure segmentation requirements
turnkey workflows that walk customers through are met. From rapid and error-free fabric deployment
the fabric deployment process, radically simplifying to automation and security, we are truly delivering
operations. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer a cloud-like experience to our customers with HPE
is agnostic of topology and can equally support Aruba Networking Fabric Composer and the AMD
standards-based VXLAN EVPN fabric as well as Pensando PSM across virtualized, bare-metal, and
traditional HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching containerized deployments.
Extension deployments seamlessly. Any complexity • Easy integration — The event-driven automation
of deploying the fabric is hidden, helping ensure engine within HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer
that network operators don’t need to understand supports integration packs that are easily installed and
the specific protocols and commands in HPE Aruba offer integrations with VMware Cloud Foundation™,
Networking CX Switch Operating System in order to VMware vCenter®, VMware vSAN™, Nutanix, HPE
deploy best practice architectures. SimpliVity, and HPE iLO Amplifier. Integrations allow
• Service orchestration — The operational benefits of customers to enjoy the benefits of automated fabric
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer also extend provisioning, event-based workflow automations,
to services because now, with the switch, you can end-to-end network and host visibility, and automatic
orchestrate provisioning and securing tenants on the storage traffic optimization.
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• Pervasive visibility — Network and virtualization • No warranty nor support for the transceiver/cable
admins have complete end-to-end network visibility when used
of connective of hosts, virtual machines, VLANs,
Jumbo frames
services, and workloads to simplify troubleshooting
• Allows high performance backups and disaster‑recovery
of connectivity and performance problems. It
systems; provides a maximum frame size of 9K bytes
automatically detects and dynamically solves
network issues before your business is impacted. Loopback
Integration with advanced AMD Pensando stateful • Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance
services provides not just visibility into the network purposes and increased availability; loopback
and compute but also extends to services allowing detection protects against incorrect cabling or network
customers to utilize flow logging, understand configurations and can be enabled on a per-port or
communication patterns in the data center, and more per-VLAN basis for added flexibility
accurately segment and firewall application tiers,
workloads, and services. Packet storm protection
• Protects against unknown broadcast, multicast, or
Performance unicast storms with user-defined thresholds
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000
High-speed fully distributed architecture QoS
• Provides 3.2 Tbps for bidirectional switching and Strict priority (SP) queuing and Deficit Weighted
2000 Mpps for forwarding; all switching and routing Round Robin (DWRR)
are wire-speed to meet the demands of bandwidth- • Enables congestion avoidance
intensive applications today and in the future
Data center bridging (DCB) — Supports lossless
• 800G of stateful services performance through dual Ethernet networking standards to help eliminate packet
AMD Pensando DPUs loss due to queue overflow
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 • Priority flow control (PFC) 7 priorities per port
High-speed fully distributed architecture
• Provides 8 Tbps for bidirectional switching; all • Enhanced transmission service (ETS)
switching and routing are wire-speed to meet the • DCB exchange protocol (prestandard Link Layer
demands of bandwidth- intensive applications today Discovery Protocol [LLDP] DCBX IEEE 1.01 version)
and in the future
• 1.6 Tbps of stateful services performance through four Flow-control guard
AMD Pensando DPUs • Prevents accumulation of excessive congestion with
periodic flushing; avoids packets buffering for an
Scalable system design extended time period
• Provides investment protection to support future
technologies and higher-speed connectivity ECN with slope
Connectivity • Marks packets as ECN-congestion experienced (CE)
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Helps Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to reduce
High-density port options receive window size during congestion
Compact, high port density 1U switch with airflow Dynamic pool configuration
direction flexibility includes a model with 48 ports of
1GbE/10GbE/25GbE (SFP/SFP+/SFP28) (1GBASE-T • Enables lossless pool configuration without switch
and 10GBASE-T transceiver support) + 6 ports of reboot
40GbE/100GbE (QSFP+/QSFP28) (optional 4x10 and
4x25 breakout) Storage solution support
• iSCSI, lossless iSCSI, RDMA over Converged Ethernet
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 High-density port version 2 (RoCE v1 and v2) and nonvolatile memory
options express over fabrics (NVMe-oF)
Compact, high port density 2U switch with high Speed
Interfaces (400G/200G/100G) 32 ports 100GbE QSFP,
6x400GbE QSFP-DD, 2x10GbE SFP+.

Unsupported Transceiver Mode (UTM)

• Allows ability to insert and enable unsupported up to
400G transceiver and cable
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Resiliency and high availability Management

Redundant and load-sharing fans and power supplies In addition to the HPE Aruba Networking CX mobile
• N+1 fans and power supplies provide redundancy app, HPE Aruba Networking Switch Multi-Edit Software
and HPE Aruba Networking CX Network Analytics
Hot swappable power supply and fan modules Engine, the HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch
• Allows replacement of accessory modules without family offers the following capabilities:
operationally impacting other modules or switch
REST API
operations
• Built-in programmable and easy to use
Separate data and control paths Management interface control
• Separates control from services to keep service • Enables or disables the console port or reset button,
processing isolated and increases security and depending on security preferences
performance
Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure
HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension • Reduces training time and expenses, and increases
• HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension productivity in multivendor installations
enables a distributed and redundant architecture Management security
by deploying two switches with each maintaining • Restricts access to critical configuration commands
independent control yet staying synchronized during
upgrades or failover. Also, it supports upgrades during • Offers multiple privilege levels with password protection
live operation. • Provides SNMP access with access control lists (ACLs)

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) • Local and remote syslog capabilities allow access logging
• VRRP allows a group of switches to dynamically IPSLA
back up each other to create highly available routed • Monitors network for degradation of various services,
environments including voice
Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD) • Enables monitoring through the HPE Aruba
• Enables sub-second failure detection for rapid routing Networking CX Network Analytics Engine for history
protocol rebalancing and for immediate automated gathering of additional
Ethernet RING Protection Switching (ERPS) information when anomalies are detected
• Supports rapid protection and recovery in a RING
topology SNMP v2c/v3
• Provides SNMP read and trap support of industry-
Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) standard Management Information Base (MIB) and
• Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports private extensions
at both ends if unidirectional traffic is detected,
preventing loops in Spanning Tree Protocol sFlow® (RFC 3176)
(STP)-based networks • Provides scalable ASIC-based wire speed network
Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD) monitoring and accounting with no impact on
• Enables sub-second failure detection for rapid routing network performance, allowing network operators to
protocol re-balancing gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics
and information for capacity planning and real-time
Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) network monitoring purposes
• Supports rapid protection and recovery in a
ring topology Remote monitoring (RMON)
• Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network
Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)
functions and supports events, alarms, history, and
• Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports
statistics groups as well as a private alarm extension
at both ends if unidirectional traffic is detected,
group
preventing loops in STP-based networks
IEEE 802.3ad LACP TFTP and SFTP support
• Supports up to 54 LAGs, with up to 16 members • Offers different mechanisms for configuration updates
per LAG (32 for an HPE Aruba Networking Virtual
• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) allows
Switching Extension pair), with a user-selectable L1-4
bidirectional transfers over a TCP/IP network
hashing algorithm
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over a
Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel to provide additional security
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Debug and sampler utility Static VXLAN

• Supports ping and trace route for IPv4 and IPv6 • Allows operators to manually connect two or more
VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEP)
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time Dynamic VXLAN with BGP-EVPN
servers and clients. • Deep segmentation for spine-leaf data center networks
or Layer 3 campus designs with centralized gateway
• Keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-
and symmetric Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)
dependent devices within the network
based distributed gateways VXLAN tunnels
• Can serve as the NTP server in a customer network
IPv4 multicast in VXLAN/EVPN overlay
IEEE 802.1AB LLDP • Enables Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)-SM/
• Advertises and receives management information IGMP snooping in the VXLAN overlay
from adjacent devices on a network, facilitating easy
mapping by network management applications IPv6 VXLAN/EVPN overlay support
• Enables IPv6 traffic over the VXLAN overlay
• LACP-fallback — Enables zero touch provisioning
over link aggregation groups VXLAN distributed anycast gateway
• Addressing mechanism that enables the use of the
Dual images same gateway IP addresses across all the leaf switches
• Provides independent primary and secondary part of a VXLAN network
operating system files for backup while upgrading
VXLAN ARP/ND suppression
Multiple configuration files • Allows minimization of Address Resolution Protocol
• Stores files easily to the flash image (ARP) and ND traffic flooding within individual VXLAN
segments, thus optimizing the VXLAN network
Layer 2 switching
VLAN
• Supports up to 4018 port-based or IEEE
Layer 3 services
ARP
802.1Q-based user configurable VLANs
• Determines the MAC address of another IP host in the
same subnet and supports static ARPs
VLAN translation
• Remaps VLANs during transit across a core network • Gratuitous ARP allows detection of duplicate IP
addresses
Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) tunneling
• Proxy ARP allows normal ARP operation between
• Transmits STP BPDUs transparently, allowing correct
subnets or when subnets are separated by a
Tree calculations across service providers, WANs or
Layer 2 network
MANs
IP directed broadcast
Port mirroring
• Supports directed broadcast on configured
• Duplicates port traffic (ingress and egress) to a local or
network subnets
remote monitoring port
• Supports four mirroring groups, with an unlimited Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
number of ports per group • DHCP services are offered within a client network to
simplify network management
STP
• DHCP relay enables DHCP operation across subnets
• Supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster
DHCP server
convergence, and IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
• Supports DHCP Smart Relay services (for IPv4 and
Protocol (MSTP)
IPv6) in customer networks
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (RPVST+)
• Allows each VLAN to build a separate Spanning Domain name system (DNS)
Tree to improve link bandwidth usage in network • Provides a distributed database that translates
environments with multiple VLANs domain names and IP addresses, which simplifies
network design
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
• Controls and manages the flooding of multicast • Supports client and server
packets in a Layer 2 network
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
• Enables tunneling traffic from site to site over a
Layer 3 path
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Layer 3 routing Static IPv6 routing

Static IPv4 routing Provides simple, manually configured IPv6 routing
Provides simple, manually configured IPv4 routing
Dual IP stack
Open shortest path first (OSPF) • Maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to
• Delivers faster convergence ease the transition from an IPv4-only network to
an IPv6- only network design
• Uses link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP),
which supports Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP), NSSA, OSPFv3
and MD5 authentication for increased security and • Provides OSPF support for IPv6
graceful restart for faster failure recovery
ECMP
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) • Enables multiple equal-cost links in a routing
• Delivers an implementation of the Exterior Gateway environment to increase link redundancy and
Protocol (EGP) utilizing path vectors scale bandwidth
• Uses TCP for enhanced reliability for the route • 32-way ECMP
discovery process
• Reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only GRE
incremental updates • Enables tunneling traffic from site to site over a
Layer 3 path
• Supports extensive policies for increased flexibility
• Dynamic BGP peering — simplifies BGP configuration Security
for ZTP scenarios and enables CX for Azure Stack TAA and FIPS 140-2 compliance
integration • The HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 with HPE
Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System, uses
Scales to very large networks FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography for protection of
sensitive information
Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIPv2)
• Easy to configure routing protocol for small networks • TAA compliant models available
relying on User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng) (PCI DSS) v4.0 compliance
• Extension of RIPv2 for support of IPv6 networking • Includes many security features that are important
for support of PCI DSS v4.0 compliance
Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) with IPv6 address family
• Enables sharing of IPv6 routes using BGP and Stateful firewall features
connections to BGP peers using IPv6 Provides hardware-based stateful firewall inspection and
secure segmentation
Policy-based routing (PBR)
• Protection from DDoS attacks
• Enables using a classifier to select traffic that can
be forwarded based on policy set by the network • Application layer gateway (ALG) support
administrator
ACL features
6in4 tunnels • Supports powerful ACLs for both IPv4 and IPv6.
• Supports the tunneling of IPv6 traffic in an IPv4
• Supports creating object groups representing sets of
network
devices
IP performance optimization • Protects control plane services such as SSH, SNMP,
• IP sub-interface — Enables IP sub-interface for NTP, or web servers
ingress and egress ACL/policies, routing, HPE Aruba
Networking Virtual Switching Extension-keep alive Dynamic policy refresh
• Enforce policy changes immediately to terminate
• Provides a set of tools to improve the performance of
malicious flows
IPv4 networks
• Includes directed broadcasts, customization of Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST)
TCP parameters, support of ICMP error packets, and • Enables secure certificate enrollment, allowing for
extensive display capabilities easier enterprise management of PKI
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Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) PIM Multicast Boundary (v4)
• Eases security access administration by using a • HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching Extension
password authentication server graceful shutdown for IGMP/MLD Multicast NSF

Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Multicast Service Delivery Protocol (MSDP) for
(TACACS+) anycast RP
• Delivers an authentication tool using TCP with • MSDP used for anycast RP is an intradomain
encryption of the full authentication request, providing feature that provides redundancy and load-sharing
additional security capabilities.

RadSec MSDP mesh groups

• Enables RADIUS authentication and accounting • Avoids SA messages flooding to other mesh
data to be passed safely and reliably across insecure group peers.
networks such as the internet
PIM-dense mode
Management access security • Floods multicast traffic to every corner of the network
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System (push-model). The method is for delivering data to
provides both on-box as well as off-box authentication receivers without receivers requesting the data, which
for administrative access. can be efficient in certain deployments in which there
are active receivers on every subnet in the network
• RADIUS or TACACS+ can be used to provide
encrypted user authentication • Branches without downstream receivers are pruned
from the forwarding trees
• TACACS+ can also provide user authorization services
Fast-leave (FL) and forced fast-leave (FFL)
• Secure port access — 802.1x, Mac-auth, LUR, DUR,
• FL and FFL for IGMP/MLD speed up the process of
port access policy, static port filtering
blocking unnecessary multicast traffic to a switch port
that is connected to end nodes for IGMP. They help to
SSHv2
eliminate the CPU overhead of having to generate an
• Uses external servers to securely log in to a remote
IGMP/MLD group-specific query message
device
• Protects against IP spoofing and plain-text password Support for Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB) for
interception with authentication and encryption server applications
• Increases the security of SFTP transfers
Microsoft NLB
Multicast • Supports server applications
IGMP
• Enables establishing multicast group memberships in PIM
IPv4 networks • PIM for IPv4 and IPv6 supports one-to-many and
many-to-many media casting use cases such as IPTV
• Supports IGMPv1, v2, and v3 over IPv4 and IPv6 networks
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) • Supports PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM, IPv4 and IPv6)
• Enables discovery of IPv6 multicast listeners
Additional information
• Supports MLDv1 and v2 • Green initiative support
• Provides support for RoHS (EN 50581:2012)
regulations
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Table 1. Technical specifications for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch Series bundles

R8P13A 10000 48Y 6C R8P14A 10000 48Y 6C

Front-to-back switch bundle Back-to-front switch bundle
(S0F97A HPE ANW 10000 48Y 6C FB (S0F98A HPE ANW 10000 48Y 6C BF 6Fs
6Fs TAA Bdl) 2PS TAA Bdl)

Description R8P13A HPE Aruba Networking 10000 48Y 6C bundle R8P14A HPE Aruba Networking 10000 48Y 6C bundle
includes: 48 x 25 Gb ports (SFP/+/28), includes: 48 x 25 Gb ports (SFP/+/28), 6 x 100 Gb ports
6 x 100 Gb ports (QSFP+/28) (QSFP+/28)
• 6xR8R53A front-to-back fan • 6xR8R54A back-to-front fan
• 2xR8R51A front-to-back 800W 100–240 VAC power • 2xR8R52A back-to-front 800W 100–240 VAC
supply power supply

Power supplies Field-replaceable, hot-swappable, and up to two power supplies.

Fans Field-replaceable, hot-swappable, and up to six fans.
Physical characteristics
Dimensions (H) 4.44 cm x (W) 43.82 cm x (D) 51.1 cm (H) 4.44 cm x (W) 43.82 cm x (D) 51.1 cm
(1.75'' x 17.25'' x 20.12'') (1.75'' x 17.25'' x 20.12'')
Full configuration weight 9.75 kg (21.45 lb) 9.75 kg (21.45 lb)
Additional specifications
CPU Intel® Xeon® CPU D-1637 6 cores @ 2.90 GHz
Memory, drive, and flash 32 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD
Packet buffer 32 MB
Performance 2

Switching capacity 3.2 Tbps (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
MAC table size 98,304
IGMP groups 8,192
MLD groups 8,192
IPv4 multicast routes 8000
IPv6 multicast routes 8000
Environment
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) noncondensing
Nonoperating temperature –40°C to 70°C (–40°F to 158°F) up to 4.6 km (15,000 ft.)

2
Some of these scaling numbers assume shared tables.
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Table 1. Technical specifications for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch Series bundles (continued)

R8P13A 10000 48Y 6C R8P14A 10000 48Y 6C

Front-to-back switch bundle Back-to-front switch bundle
(S0F97A HPE ANW 10000 48Y 6C FB (S0F98A HPE ANW 10000 48Y 6C BF 6Fs
6Fs TAA Bdl) 2PS TAA Bdl)

Environment
Nonoperating/storage 5% to 95% @ 65°C (149°F)
relative humidity
Max operating altitude Up to 10,000 ft (3.048 km)
Max nonoperating altitude Up to 15,000 ft (4.6 km)
Primary airflow Front-to-back port to PSU or back-to-front PSU to port
Electrical characteristics
Frequency 50–60 Hz
AC voltage 100–240 volts
Current 6A (low voltage)–3A (high voltage)
Power consumption3 Max: 753W Max: 753W
Typical: 550W Typical: 550W
Idle: 400W Idle: 400W
Safety
EN/IEC 60950-1:2006 + A11:2009 + A1:2010 + A12:2011 + A2:2013
EN/IEC 62368-1, 2nd. & 3rd. Ed.
UL 62368–1, 3rd. Ed.
CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 62368–1, 3rd. Ed.

EMC
EN 55032:2015/CISPR 32, Class A
FCC CFR 47 Part 15: 2018 Class A
ICES-003 Class A
VCCI Class A
CNS 13438 Class A
KS C 9832 Class A
AS/NZS CISPR 32 Class A
EN 55035, CISPR 35, KS KS C 9835

Lasers
EN 60825-1:2014 / IEC 60825-1: 2014 Class 1
Class 1 Laser Products/Laser Klasse 1
Management
CLI
REST API SNMP
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer
HPE Aruba Networking Switch Multi-Edit Software
HPE Aruba Networking Central. HPE Aruba Networking Central support will come with HPE Aruba Networking
Central 2.5.6 (not currently supported) RJ-45 serial
USB micro USB console RJ-45 Ethernet port AMD Pensando PSM
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

3
 ax measurement is collected under 100% line rate network traffic running, with all ports populated with SFP and QSFP modules. Typical measurement is collected under 50%
M
line rate network traffic running, with all ports populated with SFP and QSFP modules. Idle measurement is collected with no network traffic or modules.
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Table 2. Technical specifications for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 Switch Series bundles

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040

Front-to-back switch bundle Back-to-front switch bundle
(S4R54A HPE ANW CX 10040 32C 6D FB 4Fs (S4R55A HPE ANW CX 10040 32C 6D BF 4Fs
2PS AC Bdl) 2PS AC Bdl)

Description HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p QSFP28 100G 6p HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p QSFP28 100G 6p
QSFP-DD 400G Front-to-Back 4xFan 2xPSU AC Bundle QSFP-DD 400G Back-to-Front 4xFan 2xPSU AC Bundle
(S4R54A) (S4R55A)
• 4xS4R50A front-to-back fan • 4xS4R51A back-to-front fan
• 2xS4R52A front-to-back 300W AC PSU • 2xS4R53A back-to-front 3000W AC PSU

Power supplies Field-replaceable, hot-swappable, and up to two power supplies*

Fans Field-replaceable, hot-swappable, and up to four dual-rotor fans
Physical characteristics
Dimensions (H) 4.43 cm x (W) 60.96 cm x (D) 8.84 cm (H) 4.43 cm x (W) 60.96 cm x (D) 8.84 cm
(1.74'' x 24.0'' x 3.48'') (1.74'' x 24.0'' x 3.48'')
Full configuration weight 23.0 kg (50.6 lb) 23.0 kg (50.6 lb)
Additional specifications
CPU AMD V3C48 as main system CPU, resides on Ryder
Memory, drive, and flash 128 GB m.2 SSD, 16 MB SPI Flash, 32 GB x2 SODIMM
Packet buffer 82 MB
Performance4
Switching capacity 8 Tbps (bidirectional)
IPv4 host table 98304
IPv6 host table 49152
IPv4 unicast routes 720527
IPv6 unicast routes 368404
MAC table size 49152
IGMP groups 8192
MLD groups 8192
IPv4 multicast routes 8196
IPv6 multicast routes 8196
Environment
Operating temperature 32°F to 113°F (0°C to 45°C) at sea level 32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C) at sea level
Derate 1°C for every 1,000 ft to 10,000 ft Derate 1°C for every 1,000 ft to 10,000 ft
(300m to 3.0 km) (300m to 3.0 km)
Operating relative humidity 5% to 95% @ 113°F (45°C) non-condensing
Nonoperating temperature -40°F to 158°F up to 15,000 ft (-40°C to 70°C up to 4.6 km)

4
Some of these scaling numbers assume shared tables.
* High-line only
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Table 2. Technical specifications for HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 Switch Series bundles (continued)

HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040

Front-to-back switch bundle Back-to-front switch bundle
(S4R54A HPE ANW CX 10040 32C 6D FB 4Fs (S4R55A HPE ANW CX 10040 32C 6D BF 4Fs
2PS AC Bdl) 2PS AC Bdl)

Environment
Nonoperating/storage 5% to 95% @ 149°F (65°C) non-condensing
relative humidity
Max operating altitude Up to 10,000 ft (3 km)
Max nonoperating altitude Up to 15,000 ft (4.6 km)
Primary airflow Front-to-back Back-to-front
Electrical characteristics
Frequency 50-60 Hz
AC voltage 100-127 VAC / 200-240 VAC
100-127 VAC restricted to non-redundant with 2PSUs operation only
200-240 VAC allows full support of redundant and non-redundant operation
Current 6A (low voltage)–3A (high voltage)
Power consumption 5
Typical : 1200W
6
Typical6: 1200W
Safety
EU:
EN62368-1, Ed.2:2014
EN62368-1, Ed.3:2020
North America:
UL62368-1, CSA 22.2 No 62368-1
Worldwide:
IEC 62368-1:2014
IEC 62368-1:2018
EMC
FCC Part 15 Class A,
EN55032:2015+AC:2016+A11:2020 Class A,
CISPR-32:2015 Class A
Management
CLI
REST API SNMP
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer
HPE Aruba Networking Switch Multi-Edit Software
HPE Aruba Networking Central. HPE Aruba Networking Central support will come with HPE Aruba Networking
Central 2.5.6 (not currently supported) RJ-45 serial
USB-C USB console RJ-45 Ethernet port AMD Pensando PSM
Mounting and enclosure
Mounts in an EIA standard 19-inch rack or other equipment cabinet; horizontal surface mounting only; 2-post Rack
Mount Kit included with switch, optional 4-post rack mount kit must be ordered separately.

5
 ax measurement is collected under 100% line rate network traffic running, with all ports populated with SFP and QSFP modules. Typical measurement is collected under 50% line rate network traffic running, with all
M
ports populated with SFP and QSFP modules. Idle measurement is collected with no network traffic or modules. Max power @ 40C, SR Optics and 100% traffic, Typical power @ 25C, DAC cables and 50% traffic.
6
Estimated typical power consumption.
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Standards and protocols • RFC 2401 Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
The following standards and protocols are supported. • RFC 2402 IP Authentication Header
• IEEE 802.1AB-2009 • RFC 2406 IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
• IEEE 802.1ak-2007 • RFC 2460 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6)
Specification
• IEEE 802.1t-2001
• RFC 2545 Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for
• IEEE 802.1AX-2008 Link Aggregation
IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• IEEE 802.1p Traffic Class Expediting and Dynamic
• RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Multicast Filtering
• RFC 2787 Definitions of Managed Objects for the
• IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree
• RFC 2934 Protocol Independent Multicast MIB for IPv4
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• RFC 3137 OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
• RFC 3176 InMon Corporation’s sFlow: A Method for
• IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet Monitoring Traffic in Switched and Routed Networks
• IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet • RFC 3484: Default Address Selection for Internet
• IEEE 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• IEEE 802.3ba 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet • RFC 3509 Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area
Architecture Border Routers
• RFC 768 UDP • RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart
• RFC 791 IP • RFC 3810 Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2
• RFC 792 ICMP (MLDv2) for IPv6
• RFC 793 TCP • RFC 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts
and Routers
• RFC 826 ARP
• RFC 4251 The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
• RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol
• RFC 4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
• RFC 813 Window and Acknowledgement Strategy in TCP
• RFC 4273 Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
• RFC 815 IP datagram reassembly algorithms
• RFC 4291 IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 879 TCP maximum segment size and related topics
• RFC 4292 IP Forwarding Table MIB
• RFC 896 Congestion control in IP/TCP internet works
• RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the
• RFC 917 Internet subnets Internet Protocol (IP)
• RFC 919 Broadcasting Internet Datagrams • RFC 4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
• RFC 922 Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the • RFC 4486 Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
Presence of Subnets (IP_BROAD)
• RFC 4552 Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
• RFC 925 Multi-LAN address resolution
• RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 1215 Convention for defining traps for use with
the SNMP • RFC 4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery Messages • RFC 4940 IANA Considerations for OSPF
• RFC 1393 Traceroute Using an IP Option • RFC 5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers
in IPv6
• RFC 1591 Domain Name System Structure and
Delegation • RFC 5187 OSPFv3 Graceful Restart
• RFC 1657 Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4 • RFC 5701 IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended
using SMIv2 Community Attribute
• RFC 1772 Application of the Border Gateway Protocol • RFC 6987 OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
in the Internet • RFC 7047 The Open vSwitch Database Management
• RFC 1981 Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 Protocol
• RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute • RFC 7059 A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel
• RFC 1998 An Application of the BGP Community Mechanisms
Attribute in Multi-home Routing • RFC 7313 Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP • RFC 8201 Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
MD5 Signature Option
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Bundles and accessories Power supply

• R8R51A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 FB AC PSU
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 switch bundles
Note: 4-post mounting kit and console cable are not • R8R52A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 BF AC PSU
included in bundles. Order separately. Mounting kit is
HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 switch bundles
required.
• S4R54A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p
• R8P13A HPE Aruba Networking 10000 48Y 6C bundle QSFP28 100G 6p QSFP-DD 400G Front-to-Back 4xFan
includes: 48 x 25Gb ports (SFP/+/28), 6 x 100Gb ports 2xPSU AC Bundle
(QSFP+/28), 6 front-to-back fans and 2 PSUs
• R8P14A HPE Aruba Networking 10000 48Y 6C bundle • S4R55A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p
includes: 48 x 25Gb ports (SFP/+/28), 6 x 100Gb ports QSFP28 100G 6p QSFP-DD 400G Back-to-Front 4xFan
(QSFP+/28), 6 back-to-front fans and 2 PSUs 2xPSU AC Bundle

TAA SKUs TAA SKUs

• HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 48p SFP28 • HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p QSFP28 100G
10G/25G 6p QSFP28 100G FB 6 Fans 2 PSU TAA 6p QSFP-DD 400G Front-to-Back 4Fs 2xPSU AC TAA
Switch Bundle (S0F97A) Bundle (S4R56A)
• HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 48p SFP28
• HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 32p QSFP28 100G
10G/25G 6p QSFP28 100G BF 6 Fans 2 PSU TAA
6p QSFP-DD 400G Back-to-Front 4Fs 2xPSU AC TAA
Switch Bundle (S0F98A)
Bundle (S4R57A)
HPE Aruba Networking CX feature packs
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Switch Accessories
Advanced 1-Year E-STU (S0T97AAE) • S4R50A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 Front-to-
Back Fan
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Switch
Advanced 3-Year E-STU (S0T98AAE) • S4R51A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10040 Back-to-
Front Fan
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Switch
Advanced 5-Year E-STU (S0T99AAE) Power supply
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Premium • S4R52A HPE ANW 10040 3000W FB C20 AC PSU
1-Year E-LTU (S0U02AAE) • S4R53A HPE ANW 10040 3000W BF C20 AC PSU
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Premium
3-Year E-LTU (S0U03AAE) HPE Aruba Networking CX feature packs
• HPE ANW CX 10040 Adv Perp Sub E-STU (S6J71AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Software 10xxx Premium
5-Year E-LTU (S0U04AAE) • HPE ANW CX 10040 Adv 1yr Sub E-STU (S6J68AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Soft 10xxx Pre Perpetual • HPE ANW CX 10040 Adv 3yr Sub E-STU (S6J69AAE)
E-LTU (R9H26AAE)
• HPE ANW CX 10040 Adv 5yr Sub E-STU (S6J70AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Soft 10xxx Sw Adv
Perpetual E-LTU (R9H25AAE) • HPE ANW CX 10040 Prem Perp Sub E-STU
(S6J75AAE)
Mounting kit (required when ordering a bundle) • HPE ANW CX 10040 Prem 1yr Sub E-STU (S6J72AAE)
• R8R55A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 1U 2p
Rack Mount Kit • HPE ANW CX 10040 Prem 3yr Sub E-STU (S6J73AAE)
• R8R56A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 1U 4p • HPE ANW CX 10040 Prem 5yr Sub E-STU (S6J74AAE)
Rack Mount Kit
1G Transceivers7
Console cable • HPE Aruba Networking 1G SFP LC SX 500m MMF
• HPE Aruba Networking X2C2 RJ45 to DB9 Console Transceiver (J4858D)
Cable (JL448A) • HPE Aruba Networking 1G SFP LC LX 10km SMF
• HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Bluetooth Adapter Transceiver (J4859D)
(S1H23A) — for use with the CX mobile app • HPE Aruba Networking 1G SFP LC LH 70km SMF
Transceiver (J4860D)
Accessories
• R8R53A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 FB Fan • HPE Aruba Networking 1G SFP RJ45 100m
Transceiver (J8177E)
• R8R54A HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 BF Fan
7
Supported only on CX 10000
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10G Transceivers8 and cables • HPE X242 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 5m Direct Attach
• HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ LC SR 300m MMF Copper Cable (JH236A)
Transceiver (J9150D) • HPE Aruba Networking 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 7m
• HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ LC LR 10km SMF Active Optical Cable (R0Z22A)
Transceiver (J9151E)9 • HPE Aruba Networking 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 15m
• HPE Aruba Networking 10GBASE-T SFP+ RJ45 30m Active Optical Cable (R0Z23A)
Transceiver (JL563C) • HPE Aruba Networking 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 30m
• HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ LC ER 40km SMF Active Optical Cable (R0Z24A)
Transceiver (J9153D) • HPE QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ 3m Breakout Direct Attach
• HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 1m Direct Cable (721064-B21)
Attach Copper Cable (J9281D) 100G Transceivers11 and cables
• HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 3m Direct • HPE Aruba Networking 100G QSFP28 MPO SR4 MMF
Attach Copper Cable (J9283D) Transceiver (JL309A)
25G Transceivers10 and cables • HPE Aruba Networking 100G QSFP28 LC CWDM4
2km SMF Transceiver (R0Z30A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 LC SR 100m MMF
Transceiver (JL484A) • HPE Aruba Networking 100G DR QSFP28 LC 500m
SMF Transceiver (S3N88A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 LC SR 400m MMF
Transceiver (JL485A) • HPE Aruba Networking 100G LR QSFP28 LC 10km
SMF Transceiver (S3N89A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 LC LR 10km SMF
Transceiver (JL486A) • HPE Aruba Networking 100G QSFP28 to QSFP28 1m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (R0Z25A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 0.65m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (JL487A) • HPE Aruba Networking 100G QSFP28 to QSFP28 3m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (JL307A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 3m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (JL488A) • HPE Aruba Networking 100G QSFP28 to QSFP28 5m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (R0Z26A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 5m
Direct Attach Copper Cable (JL489A) • HPE (HIT) QSFP28 to 4xSFP28 3m Breakout Direct
Attach Cable (845416-B21)
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 3m
Active Optical Cable (R0M44A) 400G Transceivers13 and cables
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD MPO-16 SR8
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 7m 100m MMF Transceiver (R9B41A)
Active Optical Cable (R0M45A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to QSFP-DD
• HPE Aruba Networking 25G SFP28 to SFP28 15m 3m Active Optical Cable (R9B45A)
Active Optical Cable (R0Z21A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to QSFP-DD
40G Transceivers12 and Cables 7m Active Optical Cable (R9B43A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 40G QSFP+ LC BiDi 150m
MMF Transceiver (JL308A) • HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to QSFP-DD
15m Active Optical Cable (R9B47A)
• HPE X142 40G QSFP+ MPO SR4
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to QSFP-DD
Transceiver (JH231A)
30m Active Optical Cable (R9B46A)
• HPE X142 40G QSFP+ MPO eSR4 300M
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to QSFP-DD
Transceiver (JH233A) 50m Active Optical Cable (R9B44A)
• HPE X142 40G QSFP+ LC LR4 SM • HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56
Transceiver (JH232A) 200G 3m Active Optical Cable (R9B55A)
• HPE Aruba Networking 40G QSFP+ LC ER4 40km • HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56
SMF Transceiver (Q9G82A) 200G 7m Active Optical Cable (R9B53A)
• HPE X242 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 1m Direct Attach • HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56
Copper Cable (JH234A) 200G 15m Active Optical Cable (R9B57A)
• HPE X242 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ 3m Direct Attach • HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56
Copper Cable (JH235A) 200G 30m Active Optical Cable (R9B56A)

13
Supported only on CX 10000
9
10G LR support only for Revision E part, J9151E (Note: Do not use J9151D)
8, 10, 11, 12
Consult the HPE Aruba Networking operating system switch and HPE Aruba Networking CX Switch Operating System transceiver guide
in the HPE Aruba Networking support portal for the minimum required software releases to support these transceivers.
Data sheet

• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 2x QSFP56 • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
200G 50m Active Optical Cable (R9B54A) Switch Foundational 5-Year Subscription E-STU
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 4x QSFP56 (R3K05AAE)
100G 3m Active Optical Cable (R9B50A) • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 4x QSFP56 Switch Foundational 7-Year Subscription E-STU
100G 7m Active Optical Cable (R9B48A) (R3K06AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 4x QSFP56 • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
100G 15m Active Optical Cable (R9B52A) Switch Foundational
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 4x QSFP56 10-Year Subscription E-STU (R3K07AAE)
100G 30m Active Optical Cable (R9B51A) • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
• HPE Aruba Networking 400G QSFP-DD to 4x QSFP56 Switch Advanced 1-Year Subscription E-STU
100G 50m Active Optical Cable (R9B49A) (JZ540AAE)
• HPE ANW 400G ZR QSFP-DD 80km SMF XCVR • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
(S4B38A) Switch Advanced 3-Year Subscription E-STU
(JZ541AAE)
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric • HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
Composer Switch Advanced 5-Year Subscription E-STU
• Product ordering information for HPE Aruba (JZ542AAE)
Networking Fabric Composer is available at
• HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer solution
Switch Advanced 7-Year Subscription E-STU
overview
(JZ543AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer Device
• HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx
Management Service Tier 4 Switch 1-Year Subscription
Switch Advanced
E-STU (R7G99AAE)
10-Year Subscription E-STU (JZ544AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer Device
• HPE Aruba Networking Central
Management Service Tier 4 Switch 3-Year Subscription
On-premises 8xxx Switch Foundational 1-Year
E-STU (R7H00AAE)
Subscription E-STU (R6U88AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer Device
• HPE Aruba Networking Central
Management Service Tier 4 Switch 5-Year Subscription
On-premises 8xxx Switch Foundational 3-Year
E-STU (R7H01AAE)
Subscription E-STU (R6U89AAE)
HPE Aruba Networking Central • HPE Aruba Networking Central
On-premises 8xxx Switch Foundational 5-Year
CX switch subscription SKUs Subscription E-STU (R6U90AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx • HPE Aruba Networking Central
Switch Foundational 1-Year Subscription E-STU On-premises 8xxx Switch Foundational 7-Year
(R3K03AAE) Subscription E-STU (R6U91AAE)
• HPE Aruba Networking Central 8xxx/9xxx/10xxx • HPE Aruba Networking Central
Switch Foundational 3-Year Subscription E-STU On-premises 8xxx Switch Foundational
(R3K04AAE) 10-Year Subscription E-STU (R6U92AAE)

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