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The Aruba 2930F Switch Series is designed for customers creating digital workplaces optimized for mobile users with an integrated wired and wireless approach. These Layer 3 access switches are easy to deploy and manage with advanced security and network management tools like Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager and Aruba AirWave.

With support from Aruba Central, you can quickly set up remote branch sites with little or no IT support. A powerful Aruba ProVision ASIC delivers performance and flexibility to meet today’s and tomorrow’s network programmability and automation requirements.

Stacking with Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) provides simplicity and scalability. The 2930F supports PoE+, Access OSPF routing, Tunnel Node, robust QoS, RIP 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 Provisioning.

Features and benefits

Unified Wired and Wireless

• Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager supports unified wired and wireless policies.
• Switch auto-configuration automatically configures the switch for different settings such as VLAN, CoS, PoE max. power, and PoE priority when an Aruba access point is detected.
• User Role defines a set of switch-based policies in areas such as security, authentication, and QoS. A user role can be assigned to a group of users or devices, using switch-based local user role or downloaded from ClearPass.
• Tunnel Node provides a secure tunnel that transports network traffic on a per-port or per-user role basis to an Aruba Controller. In a per-user role Tunnel Node, users are authenticated by the ClearPass Policy Manager, which directs traffic to be tunneled to an Aruba controller or switched locally.
• HTTP redirect supports HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) bring your own device (BYOD) solution.
• Static IP visibility allows ClearPass to do accounting for clients with static IP address.

Software-defined networks

• Supports multiple programmatic interfaces, including REST APIs and OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3, to enable automation of network operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Traffic prioritization (IEEE 802.1p) allows real-time traffic classification into eight priority levels mapped to eight queues.
• Layer 4 prioritization enables prioritization based on TCP/UDP port numbers.
• Class of Service (CoS) sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on IP address, IP Type of Service (ToS), Layer 3 protocol, TCP/UDP port number, source port, and DiffServ.
• Rate limiting sets per-port ingress enforced maximums and per-port, per-queue minimums.
• Large buffers provide graceful congestion management.
• Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting throttles unicast packets with unknown destination addresses and limits flooding on the VLAN.