The growing use of IoT, the demand for cloud-based services, and business-critical mobility are destroying legacy networks. Today’s enterprise networks must scale to handle massive edge data, securely connect new devices and users, and deliver always-on performance that delights users and speeds up business. The network must reduce complexity through intelligent, automated insights to help IT operate, manage, and secure the network more effectively.
Network Challenges
Operational Complexity
IT teams with limited resources are hampered by the need to manage multiple network operating systems, overloaded hardware, and complex software licensing. Better network visibility and easier traffic segmentation are crucial as more IoT devices connect to the network and raise security concerns.
Legacy Networks Can’t Keep Pace
The transition to digital has affected every aspect of the network, from the edge to the core. Mobile users demand high-performance voice, video, and cloud applications to improve collaboration, business operations, and educational outcomes, increasing enterprise network data exponentially. Closed system architectures with highly manual, hard-coded configurations hinder the adoption of new technologies required to support time-sensitive networking services and 24 x 7 access.
Limited Control and Visibility
It cannot be easy to quickly pinpoint an application’s source or network slowdown. Because they are typically executed by external devices using separately purchased software, existing network analytic tools provide fragmented data with few practical insights. Due to high network traffic volumes and network access required for business operations, the pressure on IT teams to diagnose and resolve problems as soon as possible is increasing.
Aruba’s CX Switching Solution
Aruba reduces the complexity of managing today’s networks through AI-powered automation and policy-driven segmentation. Our switch family combines cutting-edge hardware and the reliable AOS-CX operating system for today’s enterprise campus, branch, and data centre networks.
The Aruba CX Advantage
A Single OS for Simplicity
Unified management from the edge to the data centre, a streamlined network design, and a consistent operator experience are all benefits of this solution.
Unified Management
You get powerful network visibility, analytics, and control with cloud-based and on-premises management, intuitive workflows, and unified views of devices and clients.
Intelligent Automation
To verify and deploy error-free configurations while minimizing manual work and coordinating provisioning and changes smoothly, safely, and quickly.
Faster Troubleshooting
Distributed, embedded analytics that provides real-time, network-wide visibility can aid in preventing, identifying, and resolving problems before they impact users and operations.
Always-on Performance
Cutting-edge hardware and the robust AOS-CX operating system provide high availability during live upgrades for the best user experience.
Dynamic Segmentation
Role-based access and policy enforcement on all sizes of WAN, wired, and wireless networks.
Aruba’s CX Switching Solution
Aruba reduces the complexity of managing today’s networks through AI-powered automation and policy-driven segmentation. So cutting-edge hardware and the reliable AOS-CX operating system make our switch family ideal for enterprise campus, branch, and data centre networks.
Single OS for Edge Access to Data Centre
Campus, branch, and data centre networks benefit from Aruba’s database-driven network switch operating system, AOS-CX. So It scales from primary access to high availability data centre switching. Because It is designed with a microservices architecture to automate and simplify IT operations. AOS-CX reduces complexity by eliminating silos of separate switch architectures for deployments such as branch offices and campuses by providing a consistent operator experience, a streamlined network architecture, and unified management across the entire network.
Unified, AI-powered Management
It is an AI-powered solution that simplifies IT operations, increases agility, and reduces costs by integrating the management of all network infrastructure. Aruba Central is your single point of visibility and control across the entire network—from branch to data centre, wired and wireless LAN to WAN—with enterprise-grade resiliency and security while being simple enough for small businesses with limited IT staff. So Aruba Central, a cloud-based or on-premises solution, is designed to simplify operations from day one to day two.
So it streamlines virtual switch stack creation workflows, automates monitoring with AI-powered insights and NAE, and provides a unified view of all wired and wireless devices and users. Comprehensive switch management capabilities include configuration, onboarding, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting.
Built-in Monitoring and Diagnostics
Aruba Network Analytics Engine (NAE) provides real-time network insights to quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve problems as they arise. Intelligent notifications and rules-based, real-time monitoring aid in accelerating diagnostic procedures and resolving issues before they affect users and the business. So python and CLI-based agents and REST APIs with advanced telemetry and automation in specific Aruba CX switch help network operators diagnose network, system, application, and security issues quickly.
Automated Config Validation and Rollouts
The Aruba CX switching portfolio enables IT teams to coordinate multiple switch configuration changes for seamless, end-to-end service rollouts. So CX switches support automation, enabling quick network changes and ensuring policy conformance after network updates using Aruba Central’s multi-edit mode or standalone Aruba NetEdit.
The intelligent capabilities are search, edit, validation (including conformance checking), deployment, and audit features. Because of the tight integration with NAE, robust monitoring and troubleshooting analytics from across the network can be quickly visualized, analyzed, and used as a basis for action.
Software-defined Orchestration for Data Centre Networks
Aruba Fabric Composer is a clever, API-driven, software-defined orchestration solution that simplifies and speeds up rack-scale computing, storage infrastructure, and leaf-spine network provisioning. This solution can orchestrate a discrete set of switches as a single networking fabric, greatly simplifying operations and troubleshooting. It is fully aware of the infrastructure and applications and automates various configuration and lifecycle events.
High Availability
High availability is required at the core and aggregation layers of campus networks and leaf-spine architectures in data centres. So network availability requires frequent upgrades and configuration changes. Build Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) from the ground up to meet the availability, virtualization, and simplicity needs of a continuous, carrier-class network.
Due to unique control plane synchronization for multi-chassis high availability and redundant hardware and software architecture, Aruba VSX Live Upgrade ensures business success by keeping the network available during software upgrades.
Distributed Services Switching
While distributing advanced services to the data centre edge, the new Aruba CX 10000 provides a unified network, security automation, and policy. It provides 800G of distributed micro-segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT, encryption, and telemetry services inline across all ports, closer to critical enterprise applications than industry-standard leaf-spine networking.
Takeaways
Aruba CX Switching will completely transform your network architecture. Because of its tightly integrated software and hardware capabilities, it is simple to set up a dependable and secure wired network. So aside from long-term savings, this will allow you to scale your infrastructure effectively and quickly. So, why wait? Right now, revolutionize your network!
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