Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded its Aruba Networking wired and wireless portfolio, along with Aruba CX 10K distributed services switches, which have built-in programmable data processing units (DPUs) from AMD Pensando.

These DPUs offload security and network services to free up resources for complex AI workload processing.

The expansions include:

• Aruba Networking CX 10040 distributed services smart switch that doubles the scale and performance of the previous networking and security offering.
• Four Aruba Networking CX 6300M campus networking switches, which provide faster data speeds for enterprise IoT, AI or high-performance computing with a more compact footprint.
• Wifi 7 access points (APs) and capabilities for AI-driven indoor and outdoor connectivity that deliver high quality of service for data, voice and video communications.

“Data-fuelled AI, IoT and other high-performance applications are driving unprecedented demands for enterprises to provide cost-effective connectivity, no matter where devices and users are or how they access the network,” said Phil Mottram, executive vice president at HPE (www.hpe.com). “HPE is again raising the bar with innovations that simplify data centre and overall server connectivity at ten times the scale and performance and one-third the cost of traditional enterprise options.”

Soni Jiandani, senior vice president at AMD (www.amd.com), added: “As AI and data-driven applications continue to transform every industry, the need for scalable, compliant and high-performance networking has never been greater. Together with HPE and the Aruba Networking CX 10040 platform, we’re combining AMD’s advanced, programmable DPU and software technology with HPE’s data centre networking, enabling secure, scalable services for data-centre and colocation deployments that support the world’s largest enterprises at a fraction of the cost of legacy options.”

Aruba Networking says it is demonstrating its commitment to powering enterprises of all sizes and across every industry as AI, IoT and other types of high-performance computing accelerate.

The CX 10040 smart switch (www.hpe.com/us/en/aruba-networking-cx-10000-switch-series.html) uses an AMD Pensando DPU to double the scale and performance of the widely-deployed CX 10000 distributed services switch, supporting the growth in AI-driven computing, while maintaining its built-in firewalling, in-line encryption and precision telemetry for increased security, greater observability and more efficient server operation.

The CX 6300 series (www.hpe.com/us/en/networking/wired-wireless-wan.html) campus switches provide encryption protocols, precision timing, and application recognition and control, which helps enterprises meet multiple types of data security, volume and bandwidth service level agreements (SLAs) on a single switch. The four new switches also operate within a smaller footprint to provide increased capacity and performance in demanding environments.

The Aruba 720 and 740 series and indoor and outdoor 760 series Wifi 7 access points feature a network slicing capability – dynamic application prioritisation – to deliver the transmission priority and performance required for the real-time computing needs of AI and cloud-delivered applications. The 760 series is designed for indoor, outdoor and industrial environments with flexible radio and antenna modes.

Application-aware networking across campus switches is available on the CX 5420 and 6200 series switches, enabling enterprises to apply specific policies more granularly to ensure AI, IoT and high-performance computing data can travel over the entire network based on pre-defined SLAs.

A single point of visibility, control and analytics delivered by the latest release of Aruba Networking Central provides secure, AI-powered network management that seamlessly scales across campus environments and data centres.

Morpheus VM Essentials integration with CX 10000 switches helps organisations unify the orchestration of virtual and physical network and security services such as distributed firewall micro-segmentation across ESXi, KVM and bare metal hosts, easing migration to an open virtualisation model with no forklift required.