Aruba 6405 Switch Chassis

The Aruba 6405 is a modular chassis-based switch platform engineered for high-availability deployments in large-scale campus and data center aggregation layers. The system supports flexible linecard configurations with up to 400Gbps switching fabric capacity, enabling organizations to scale port density and interface types without complete hardware replacement. Its VSX (Virtual Switching Extension) stacking architecture creates logical single-switch operation across multiple chassis units, eliminating single points of failure and providing transparent load balancing across redundant fabric links.

Architecturally, the 6405 employs a modular design with dedicated supervisor modules, power supplies, and swappable linecards that support 25G, 40G, 100G, and 400G interfaces. The system integrates AOS-CX operating system, delivering advanced routing, switching, security, and programmability features required by banking, higher education, and healthcare institutions. Distributed fabric architecture ensures consistent latency and throughput regardless of traffic patterns, with non-blocking switching performance across all active linecards.

The platform is widely deployed where carrier-grade uptime, operational flexibility, and future-proof scalability are non-negotiable. Its modular economics allow staged capacity growth aligned with actual network demand, while VSX stacking reduces operational complexity by presenting multiple physical chassis as a single unified device to the network control plane.

Ideal for

• University campus networks aggregating traffic from multiple building access layers with 99.999% availability SLA requirements across redundant data center connections
• Bank branch consolidation and core network fabric supporting high-frequency trading systems, ATM networks, and real-time transaction processing with zero packet loss tolerance
• Hospital medical device networks and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems requiring deterministic performance and split-brain mitigation across geographically distributed clinical sites
• Government agency WAN aggregation points consolidating secure traffic from multiple facilities with redundant supervisors and hitless supervisor failover
• Service provider metro aggregation nodes supporting multi-tenant VLAN segmentation, QoS enforcement, and LSP termination for carrier customers
• Enterprise data center core fabric supporting East-West traffic between server pods with non-blocking throughput and minimal jitter for latency-sensitive applications

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.