Cisco, Network Equipment Resource: HPE Aruba 2930F Switch Series Tech Guide

The Aruba 2930F Switch Series consists of eleven switches: Each switch (aside for the 8 port model) has four SFP or SFP+ uplink ports, while the 8 port model has 2 SFP+ uplink ports. Together with static, RIP and Access OSPF routing, robust security and management, enterprise-class features, free lifetime warranty and free software updates, the 2930F switch series is a cost-effective, scalable solution for customers who are building high-performance networks.

These switches can be deployed at the enterprise edge and remote branch offices.

Key Benefits

• High-performance Gigabit Ethernet access switch

• Four 10GbE (SFP+) ports Or four 1GbE (SFP) ports on 24/48 port models

• Two 10GbE (SFP+) ports on the 8 port model

• Layer 2 and Layer 3 plus static ,RIP and OSPF routing, PoE and PoE+ support

• Lifetime Warranty, sFlow, ACLs and rate limiting

• Support VxLAN

What’s New

• Up to 370W of PoE/PoE+ power (on 24/48 port models)

• Up to 125W of POE/POE+ power (on 8 port model)

• Energy Efficient Ethernet – IEEE802.3az

• Dual personality Micro USB console and RJ-45 console ports

• OpenFlow 1.3 support

Product Positioning

The ARUBA 2930F Switch Series is part of the HP Aruba Networking mobile first architecture.

This switch series is used in HP Aruba Campus for small to midsize enterprise, Aruba 2930F Switch Series is Basic Layer 3 switch series supporting 8, 24 or 48 Ports with and without PoE+, fixed 10GbE SFP+ or fixed 1GbE SFP Uplink ports, static, RIP Routing and Access OSPF routing, ACLs, IPv6 and Energy Efficient Ethernet.

The Aruba 2930F Switch Series is designed for customers creating digital workplaces that are optimized for mobile users with an integrated wired and wireless approach.

These basic Layer 3 access switches are easy to deploy and manage with advanced security and network management tools like Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager, Aruba AirWave Activate and Central for Cloud Management. A powerful Aruba ArubaOS ASIC delivers performance and value with support of the latest SDN apps with future proof programmability for tomorrow’s applications. The 2930F supports 10GbE uplinks, PoE+, robust QoS, RIP and access OSPF routing, and IPv6 with no software licensing required.

The Aruba 2930F Switch Series provides a convenient and cost-effective access switch solution that can be quickly set up with Zero Touch ArubaOSing and built-in 10GbE uplinks. The robust feature set includes a limited lifetime warranty.

Aruba mobile-first architecture

Aruba’s mobile-first Infrastructure is an architectural blueprint for networks that are designed to support mission critical application and usage rather they are running on the wired or wireless infrastructure, it is designed to close the gap between the wired and wireless experience, to deliver high performance and high availability of the wireless network. It enables clients to be completely flexible when it comes to connectivity, they can enjoy the same experience and network privileges rather they connect to a wired port or via the office Wi-Fi.

Figure2. Mobile-first 3-tier campus reference design