HPE Aruba CX 8360 Switch Series
Brand: HPE | Category: Network Switches
SKU: HP-JL706C | Part #: JL706C | MPN: JL706C
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About the HPE Aruba CX 8360 Switch Series
The HPE Aruba CX 8360 is a modular, high-density switch platform purpose-built for core and aggregation layers in modern data-center topologies. Launched in Q4 2022, it delivers 51.2 Tbps of throughput with support for up to 128 400G ports or mixed-speed configurations, enabling seamless scaling across banking, healthcare, and cloud infrastructure deployments. The switch employs a distributed forwarding architecture with redundant supervisors and fabric modules, ensuring sub-50ms convergence times and carrier-grade availability required by mission-critical enterprise operations.
Architecturally, the CX 8360 combines modular line-card design with ArubaOS-CX operating system, delivering unified management across wired and wireless infrastructure. Its support for advanced network virtualization, segment routing, and dynamic load balancing makes it ideal for both traditional East-West traffic patterns and emerging multi-tenant cloud-native workloads. The platform integrates deeply with HPE SimpleSwitching and Aruba Central management frameworks, reducing operational complexity in large-scale deployments.
The CX 8360 has become a flagship choice among Fortune 500 financial institutions and major healthcare networks, proven through sustained demand since launch. Its combination of raw performance, modularity, and ArubaOS-CX ecosystem positioning establishes it as a strategic foundation for next-generation data-center spine-leaf architectures supporting 400G interconnects and beyond.
Ideal for
- Financial services data-center spine-leaf fabrics supporting high-frequency trading platforms and transactional systems requiring sub-millisecond latencies
- Healthcare enterprise networks consolidating multiple hospital systems with stringent uptime and data sovereignty requirements
- Cloud service provider infrastructure delivering multi-tenant isolation and dynamic traffic engineering across regional data centers
- Large-scale machine learning and AI workloads requiring massive East-West bandwidth for distributed training and inference clusters
- Enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity sites with inter-data-center replication traffic spanning 400G trunk connections
- Hybrid cloud environments integrating on-premises infrastructure with public cloud connectivity through high-capacity aggregation layers
Technical specifications
| Manufacturer | HP |
| Product Line | HPE Aruba CX 8360 Switch Series |
| Form Factor | Modular chassis |
| Chassis Height | 13 RU |
| Max Port Density | 128 × 400G QSFP-DD ports (or mixed-speed configurations) |
| Aggregate Throughput | 51.2 Tbps |
| Fabric Bandwidth | 102.4 Tbps non-blocking fabric |
| Forwarding Rate | 76.8 Bpps (billion packets per second) |
| Max MAC Address Table | 1,000,000 entries |
| Supported Port Speeds | 400G, 200G, 100G, 40G, 25G, 10G, 1G (via transceiver selection) |
| Switching Architecture | Distributed modular with central fabric and line-card based forwarding |
| Supervisor Modules | Redundant (N+1 configuration) |
| Fabric Modules | Redundant architecture for non-blocking operation |
| Operating System | ArubaOS-CX |
| Protocol Support | BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, LACP, VLAN, VXLAN, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS), OpenFlow |
| Layer 3 ACL | Up to 4,000 ACL rules per direction |
| Power Consumption | Approximately 3,500W (typical, fully loaded) |
| Power Supply | Redundant hot-swap AC/DC PSUs (options for 2-4 PSU configurations) |
| Management Interfaces | Out-of-band management port, integrated SSH/SNMP/NetConf support |
| Operating Temperature | 0–45°C |
| Redundancy Features | Hitless supervisor switchover, non-stop forwarding, in-service software updates |
| Launch Date | Q4 2022 |
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Technical Specifications
| Brand | HPE |
| Category | Network Switches |
| SKU | HP-JL706C |
| Part Number | JL706C |
| Condition | New |
| Product Line | HPE Aruba CX 8360 Switch Series |
| Form Factor | Modular chassis |
| Chassis Height | 13 RU |
| Max Port Density | 128 × 400G QSFP-DD ports (or mixed-speed configurations) |
| Aggregate Throughput | 51.2 Tbps |
| Fabric Bandwidth | 102.4 Tbps non-blocking fabric |
| Forwarding Rate | 76.8 Bpps (billion packets per second) |
| Max MAC Address Table | 1,000,000 entries |
| Supported Port Speeds | 400G, 200G, 100G, 40G, 25G, 10G, 1G (via transceiver selection) |
| Switching Architecture | Distributed modular with central fabric and line-card based forwarding |
| Supervisor Modules | Redundant (N+1 configuration) |
| Fabric Modules | Redundant architecture for non-blocking operation |
| Operating System | ArubaOS-CX |
| Protocol Support | BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, LACP, VLAN, VXLAN, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS), OpenFlow |
| Layer 3 ACL | Up to 4,000 ACL rules per direction |
| Power Consumption | Approximately 3,500W (typical, fully loaded) |
| Power Supply | Redundant hot-swap AC/DC PSUs (options for 2-4 PSU configurations) |
| Management Interfaces | Out-of-band management port, integrated SSH/SNMP/NetConf support |
| Operating Temperature | 0–45°C |
| Redundancy Features | Hitless supervisor switchover, non-stop forwarding, in-service software updates |
| Launch Date | Q4 2022 |