The next evolution of switching architecture that delivers advanced, scalable network and security services for enterprise datacentres

Delivering network and security services at scale is a growing challenge for enterprises, whether expanding an existing datacentre to meet growing demand for digital services or establishing edge deployments at colocation facilities to support innovative new applications. Enterprises accelerating their digital initiatives and cloud-native application development need an agile, scalable, and high-performance foundation.

Recognising the need and urgency to address these new realities, Aruba and Pensando have partnered to create a new category of network switch. The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch with Pensando delivers advanced, scalable network and security services for enterprise datacentres.

It represents the next evolution of data switching architecture, one that combines best-of-breed Aruba datacentre L2/3 switching with the industry's only fully programmable data processing unit (DPU) from Pensando.

The collaboration provides a great opportunity to extend zero trust and drive it deeper into the datacentre, and all the way to the edge. The Aruba CX 10000 switch integrates a DPU from Pensando that helps support firewall, DDoS, encryption, network-address translation, load balancing, network telemetry, and automation. This allows advanced network and security services to be deployed as close as possible to where applications are processed—at the border between the server and the network, rather than at the perimeter as in a traditional datacentre network architecture.

With firewall, encryption, tunneling, and other services running on a distributed services switch, organisations can scale new service capabilities faster.

The Aruba CX 10000 provides an entirely new switching solution that allows operators to extend the capabilities of the leaf-spine fabric to natively provide 800G of distributed stateful firewall for east-west traffic, zero-trust segmentation, pervasive telemetry, and in the future stateful NAT, encryption services.

The solution delivers a unique blend of performance, scale, and automation for distributing advanced networking and security services where it’s impractical and costly to force traffic back and forth across the network to a centralized policy enforcement point and instead simply applies these services at the services network access layer edge, where the applications are running.

And there’s more! The Aruba CX 10000 wider customer benefits include:

??Improves security posture and limits appliance sprawl

??Extends Zero Trust Segmentation deeper into the datacentre for any type of host

??Delivers isolation and multi-tenancy for virtualized, bare-metal, or containerized workloads

??Optimizes network traffic flows, bandwidth, and performance

??Overcomes centralized networking service layer chokepoints, reducing downtime

??Simplifies operations via unified network and security automation and management

??Addresses deployments where security agents can’t be deployed into servers

??Accelerates infrastructure service provisioning

??Significantly lower capex/opex expenditure on security and services

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