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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Networking Switch Portfolio

by Sherry Kercher

Copyright 2019, Faulkner Information Services. All
Rights Reserved.

Docid: 00018435

Publication Date: 1912

Report Type: PRODUCT

Preview

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s network switch family includes two main
categories: fixed port switches and modular switches. This includes
modular and stackable switch technology acquired from the company’s
purchase of 3Com. When HP bought 3Com in 2010, it combined 3Com’s assets
with those of its ProCurve Networking unit to establish the current
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Networking.

Report Content:

• Description
• Related Faulkner Reports
• Vendor
• Applications
• Environment
• Support
• Pricing
• Competitors
• Web Links

Description

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) network switch family includes fixed
port switches and modular switches.

HPE focuses on the Enterprise Business segment. This division was
previously known as HP ProCurve. In April 2010, HP combined ProCurve with
the newly-acquired 3Com to establish HP Networking.

Because of its close ties to 3Com, several of HPE’s Networking switches
are based on that technology. They were created to accommodate business
backbone traffic and are compatible with switching fabrics across many
different network topologies. The company offers a vast array of network
switches in the Altoline, FlexFabric, Aruba, FlexNetwork, and
OfficeConnect families.

Figure 1 shows the Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series

Figure 1. Aruba CX 6400 Switch Series

Source: HP

Table 1 looks at select products in the the HPE Switch portfolio in
greater detail.

Applications

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The HPE Networking Switch portfolio was developed for enterprises and
organizations of varying size, including industries such as healthcare,
education, and the retail sector, to extend performance and GB
connectivity around the network. Table 2 looks at potential uses for
select switches.

Environment

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HP Networking switches employ the Intelligent Management Center,
command-line interface, out of band management, SNMP Manager, Telnet,
RMON1, FTP, in-line and out-of-band, terminal interface and modem
interface support.

Support

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HPE offers customers off-site and on-site support for its HP Networking
customers. Users can choose phone support, as well as next-day and
four-hour on-site support options. HP also can install a customer’s
hardware for an additional fee, and provides additional help-desk, backup,
and recovery options. Finally, the company offers a 1-3 year warranty.

Pricing

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The cost for HPE switches are configuration-dependent.

Major Competitors

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HPE’s switch competitors include Cisco Catalyst; assorted Alcatel-Lucent
switches; Extreme Networks’ Summit, BlackDiamond, and Altitude switches;
Avaya’s Ethernet Routing switches; Ciena’s Packet-Optical switching;
Dell’s PowerConnect and Force10 switches; Juniper’s EX and QFabric
switches; Brocade’s Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Converged switches; and
Arista’s switch lineup.

Web Links

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• Alcatel-Lucent: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
• Arista Networks: http://www.aristanetworks.com/
• Avaya: http://www.avaya.com/
• Brocade: http://www.brocade.com/
• Ciena: http://www.ciena.com/
• Cisco Systems: http://www.cisco.com/
• Dell: http://www.dell.com/
• Extreme Networks: http://www.extremenetworks.com/
• Juniper Networks: http://www.juniper.net/

About the Author

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Sherry Kercher is an editor for Faulkner Information
Services. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science,
and tracks and writes about storage, communication networks and equipment,
and Internet technologies.

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