HPE Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch (Updated ASIC Variant)

The HPE Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch (JL934A) is a purpose-built distributed services switch engineered for modern enterprise data centers, AI/ML fabric interconnects, and high-density cloud-scale environments. At its core, the platform integrates a programmable ASIC architecture derived from the AMD Pensando DPU (Data Processing Unit) lineage, enabling stateful distributed firewall, micro-segmentation, and network services to be executed directly in the data plane without performance penalty. This design philosophy offloads security and policy enforcement from the CPU to the hardware forwarding pipeline, delivering consistent latency and throughput even under heavy inspection workloads.

The CX 10000 Series supports the HPE Aruba CX operating system, which provides a modern, API-first network operating environment with full support for REST APIs, gNMI/gRPC streaming telemetry, Ansible, Terraform, and Python scripting. The platform integrates natively with HPE Aruba Central for cloud-based management and AIOps-driven analytics, enabling operations teams to gain deep visibility into traffic flows, policy compliance, and network health at scale. Network Analytic Engine (NAE) scripting allows administrators to define custom health and performance monitors that react programmatically to network events.

Targeted at enterprise IT buyers, data center architects, and organizations building AI infrastructure fabrics across the UAE, GCC, EMEA, and APAC regions, the CX 10000 is positioned as a spine or distributed services aggregation layer switch. Its ability to enforce stateful security policies at line rate—without dedicated security appliances in the traffic path—makes it particularly compelling for zero-trust data center architectures, multi-tenant environments, and east-west traffic security enforcement at hyperscale densities.

Ideal for

• Zero-trust data center segmentation: enforcing stateful micro-segmentation and distributed firewall policies at line rate across east-west server-to-server traffic without dedicated security appliance chokepoints
• AI and machine learning fabric: serving as a high-throughput, low-latency spine interconnect for GPU cluster networks requiring predictable performance and deep traffic visibility across AI workloads
• Multi-tenant cloud and private cloud environments: isolating tenant workloads with hardware-enforced policy boundaries while maintaining full forwarding performance in virtualized and bare-metal deployments
• Data center consolidation and modernization: replacing traditional three-tier architectures with a distributed services leaf-spine model that collapses security, routing, and switching into a single platform layer
• Streaming telemetry and AIOps integration: feeding granular per-flow telemetry into HPE Aruba Central or third-party observability platforms for real-time anomaly detection and capacity planning
• Regulatory compliance infrastructure: providing auditable, policy-driven traffic controls required for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NCA/SAMA frameworks prevalent in enterprise and financial sector environments across GCC markets

Technical specifications

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