Security News > 2021 > October > Aruba introduces the industry's first distributed services switch
The new CX 10000 integrates security services, like a firewall, directly into a one-unit network switch deployable anywhere security and other services need to reside.
Aruba has announced a new single-unit networking switch that it describes as "The industry's first distributed services switch." If Aruba is correct, its new CX 10000 could be a game changer for companies who gather data at, or otherwise make use of, edge locations.
The Aruba CX 10000 was created to address several different pain points, said Aruba VP of product William Choe.
"With the explosive growth of east-west traffic in the data center, centralized security appliances are proving inefficient, expensive and difficult to manage. Simply put, hair-pinning traffic to an appliance sitting at the data center edge introduces heavy performance, cost and operational penalties," Aruba said.
The CX 10000 uses a new Pensando ASIC called LBA and what Aruba calls the only fully-programmable DPU "To deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional data center L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO," Aruba said.
Aruba advertises the CX 10000 as being a solution to a lot of different problems - not just reducing energy usage.