DATA SHEET
ARUBA CX 6200 SWITCH SERIES
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Aruba ASICs - programmable innovation
Based on over 30 years of continuous investment, Aruba’s
ASICs create the basis for innovative and agile software
feature advancements, unparalleled performance and deep
visibility. These programmable ASICs are purpose-built
to allow for a tighter integration of switch hardware and
software within campus and data center architectures to
optimize performance and capacity. Virtual Output Queuing
(VOQ) isolates congestion, prevents Head of Line Blocking
(HOLB) and allows full line rate on outgoing (egress) ports.
Flexible ASIC resources enable Aruba’s NAE solution to
inspect all data, which allows for rapid feature development
and delivery. The Aruba CX 6200 is based on the Aruba Gen7
ASIC architecture.
Aruba Dynamic Segmentation – simple, secure, and
scalable segmentation
The Aruba Dynamic Segmentation solution enables
seamless mobility, consistent policy enforcement, and
automated congurations for wired and wireless clients
across networks of all sizes. It unies role-based access
and policy enforcement across LAN, WLAN, and SD-WAN
networks with centralized policy denition and dedicated
enforcement points, ensuring that users and devices can only
communicate with destinations consistent with their role -
keeping trac secure and separate. Dynamic Segmentation
is based on establishing least privilege access to IT resources
by segmenting trac based on identity, a fundamental
concept of both Zero Trust and SASE frameworks where trust
is based on roles and policies, not on where and how a user
or device connects.
This innovation begins with colorless ports and role-
based micro-segmentation technologies. Colorless ports
allow wired clients to connect to any switch port, with the
conguration automated using RADIUS-based access control.
This eliminates the need for manual on-boarding of clients,
including IoT devices, onto the network.
Role-based micro-segmentation delivers benets of reduced
subnet and VLAN sprawl, simplied policy denition, and
scalable policy enforcement by introducing the concept of
client user roles. Independent of network constructs such
as VLANs and VRFs, clients can be grouped into a user
role based on their identity, allowing the colorless ports
technology to be extended to the centralized overlay fabric,
as clients are on-boarded with automatic tunnel creation
based on the associated user roles policy. The user roles
policy oers the choice between micro-segmentation using
centralized and unied policy enforcement for wireless
and wired trac with Layer 7 stateful rewall on gateways
or a distributed approach with a Layer 4 role-role ACL on
switches.
Mobility and IoT performance
The Aruba CX 6200 Switch Series uses a fully distributed
architecture that utilizes the Gen7 Aruba ASICs. This ensures
that our switches oer very low latency, increased packet
buering, and adaptive power consumption. All switching
and routing are wire-speed to meet the demands of
bandwidth-intensive applications today and in the future.
Each switch includes the following:
• Up to 176 Gbps in non-blocking bandwidth and up to
130.9 Mpps for forwarding
• Selectable queue congurations that allow for increased
performance by dening a number of queues and
associated memory buering to best meet the
requirements of network applications
VSF Stacking - scale and simplicity
The Aruba Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) allows you to
quickly grow your network using high performance front
plane stacking. Additional features include:
• Support for up to 8 switches (or members) in a stack via
chain or ring topology
• Flexibility to create stacks that span longer distances such
as hundreds of meters across campuses to kilometres
between sites using long-range 10GbE transceivers
• Simplied conguration and management as the switches
act as a single chassis when stacked
• The Aruba CX Mobile app provides support for a validated
stack deployment that ensure that all stack links and
uplinks are connected properly
Enterprise-class connectivity for all environments
Whether in the branch oce or a small to large enterprise
environment, you can choose from ve xed 1U models.
Each switch includes four high-speed built-in uplinks that
auto-negotiate from 1GbE to 10GbE to deliver non-blocking
performance. Additional highlights:
• 1U models support 24 and 48 access ports of IEEE 802.3
(100M/1GbE) with four built-in 1GbE/10GbE uplink SFP+
ports