HP purchased Aruba on May 19th, 2015. They seem to have a new switching product line out now since the merger and an engineer from HP came in to talk to me (and a few other engineers) about their switching products, because we sell Aruba wireless. I wont go into the details, but I was not impressed with that visit.
I don't mind asking hard questions to people. The more questions I asked, the more I realized how unprepared HP was in this visit. I guess if you don't have a strong product, its hard to be confident about what you are trying to get people to buy. I'm good with the Aruba wireless, but I'm not good with the Aruba/HP switch line. So, as I will normally do, I did the investigation myself of their products and what the apples to apples product comparison really is.
HP/Aruba recommends the following:
HP 2920s and 3800s they say are for the IDF (access switches)
HP 5400r acts as a distribution switch or a core switch.
When you spec the 5400r up against its "apples to apples" comparison, it doesnt compare.
The low end 5400r:
forwarding rate of 571.4Mpps
switch fabric speed of 1.015 Bbps
The low end ICX 7750:
forwarding rate of 1.44 Bpps
switch fabric speed of 1.92 Tbps
The Brocade ICX 6650 (this shouldn't be a comparison):
forwarding rate of 1.190 Bpps
I can tell you I wont be presenting HP/Aruba to my customers.
This is the retired Shane Killen personal blog, an IT technical blog about configs and topics related to the Network and Security Engineer working with Cisco, Brocade, Check Point, and Palo Alto and Sonicwall. I hope this blog serves you well. -- May The Lord bless you and keep you. May He shine His face upon you, and bring you peace.
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