Aruba CX 6200M 36G (R8Q71A) – 36 × 1GbE + 12 × Smart Rate Multi-Gig PoE+ Ports, 4 × 10GbE Uplinks, Enterprise L3 Switch

Aruba CX 6200M (R8Q71A) is a high-performance Layer 3 access switch designed for enterprise campus, branch, and high-density edge deployments. Featuring 36 × 1GbE ports and 12 × Smart Rate multi-gigabit PoE+ ports, it delivers flexible connectivity for a wide range of devices, including Wi-Fi 6/6E access points, IP phones, and IoT endpoints. With a Class6 PoE+ power budget, the switch can provide up to 740W of power, supporting high-demand devices while simplifying network design by reducing the need for additional power injectors. The 4 × 10GbE SFP+ uplinks ensure high-speed aggregation to distribution or core layers, enabling seamless integration into existing enterprise networks.

Built on Aruba AOS-CX software, the CX 6200M offers advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 features, including static and dynamic routing, VRF-lite, and robust security policies. The switch provides comprehensive monitoring and automation capabilities, including telemetry, sFlow, and Aruba Central integration, allowing IT teams to optimize performance, troubleshoot proactively, and scale the network efficiently. Its combination of multi-gig PoE+, high-density connectivity, enterprise-grade security, and automation makes it ideal for modern campuses, high-density office floors, and branch environments requiring reliable, scalable, and future-ready access layer infrastructure.

KEY FEATURES

• Access Ports: 36 × 1GbE RJ45, 12 × Smart Rate Multi-Gigabit PoE+ (1/2.5/5GbE)
• PoE+ Power Budget: Class6, up to 1440W total
• Uplink Ports: 4 × 10GbE SFP+ (fiber/DAC)
• CPU: ARM Cortex-A72 Quad-Core 1.8 GHz
• System Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Flash Storage: 16 GB
• Switching Capacity: 272 Gbps
• Forwarding Rate: up to 130.9 Mpps
• Packet Buffer: 8 MB shared
• MAC Address Table: 16,000 entries
• VLAN Support: Up to 4,094 VLANs
• Jumbo Frames: Up to 9,220 bytes
• Latency: 2.28–1.46µs (1G/10G)
• Management: Aruba AOS-CX with Web GUI, CLI, NetEdit, REST APIs
• Monitoring & Telemetry: sFlow, RMON, Syslog, streaming telemetry
  
  

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

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Multi-Gigabit PoE+ for High-Density Deployments:

The CX 6200M features 12 Smart Rate multi-gigabit PoE+ ports (1/2.5/5GbE) with Class6 support, delivering up to 740W total power budget. Each port automatically negotiates the highest supported speed for connected devices, providing efficient bandwidth and power delivery to high-demand endpoints like Wi-Fi 6/6E APs, VoIP phones, surveillance cameras, and IoT sensors. This eliminates the need for external PoE injectors, simplifies cabling infrastructure, and allows dynamic allocation of power across multiple devices, ensuring uninterrupted operation even in high-density environments.

EVPN-VXLAN for Scalable Campus and Branch Networks:

The switch supports EVPN-VXLAN overlays, enabling enterprises to extend Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks across geographically distributed campuses, branch offices, and data centers. This technology allows seamless tenant segmentation, workload mobility, and consistent policy enforcement without manual network reconfiguration. Administrators can quickly deploy new devices, provision VLANs, and maintain operational consistency while reducing complexity, improving scalability, and enabling multi-tenant environments or hybrid cloud architectures.

Virtual Switching Framework (VSF):

VSF technology allows multiple CX 6200M switches to operate as a single logical device. This consolidates management, simplifies firmware upgrades, and provides high resiliency with automatic failover and distributed control planes. VSF also enables simplified scaling of port capacity and provides uninterrupted connectivity for critical enterprise applications, making it ideal for modular campus designs, high-density floors, and network environments requiring high availability.

High-Performance Layer 3 Routing:

The CX 6200M delivers robust Layer 3 capabilities including IPv4/IPv6 static routing, VRF-lite, and ECMP. This enables enterprise networks to segment traffic, optimize bandwidth usage, and implement multiple routing domains at the access layer. Equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP) ensures efficient traffic distribution across redundant paths, reducing congestion and improving overall network performance. The switch also supports basic multicast routing to enhance communication for streaming, conferencing, and collaborative applications.

AI-Driven Automation and Network Insights:

Integration with Aruba AOS-CX automation and Aruba Central provides predictive analytics, zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), automated troubleshooting, and proactive performance optimization. Network teams gain real-time visibility into device health, link utilization, and traffic patterns, enabling them to detect and remediate issues before they impact users. AI-driven insights reduce operational workload, minimize human error, and accelerate service deployment across multiple sites, ensuring consistent and reliable network performance.

Advanced Telemetry and Monitoring:

Rich telemetry and monitoring capabilities include sFlow, RMON, Syslog, and streaming telemetry. These allow administrators to track application behavior, monitor bandwidth utilization, detect congestion, and perform predictive capacity planning. Integration with Aruba Central provides real-time dashboards, alerting, and reporting to maintain SLA compliance, optimize network resources, and proactively address potential bottlenecks.

Comprehensive Quality of Service (QoS):

Advanced QoS mechanisms prioritize latency-sensitive traffic such as voice, video, and critical business applications. Features include multiple queues per port, traffic shaping, congestion avoidance, and scheduling policies. These capabilities ensure low-latency delivery, smooth video streaming, and high-quality voice communications, even during periods of heavy network usage, enhancing user experience and maintaining application performance.

Enterprise-Grade Security:

The CX 6200M offers multi-layered security, including ACLs for IPv4/IPv6, 802.1X authentication, DHCP snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), and IP Source Guard. Secure management is enforced via SSH, RADIUS, TACACS+, and SNMPv3. These features protect against unauthorized devices, prevent network spoofing, ensure secure device onboarding, and enforce compliance with enterprise security policies, safeguarding both the network and sensitive data.

High Availability and Redundancy:

The switch supports optional redundant power supplies, VSF-based failover, hot-swappable fans, and link aggregation. These features maintain continuous uptime for critical enterprise applications, provide seamless failover during hardware or link failures, and ensure resilient connectivity across the access layer. Combined with robust hardware and software reliability, this makes the CX 6200M suitable for mission-critical environments.

Cloud-Ready Management and Centralized Control:

Integration with Aruba Central provides centralized visibility, automated configuration, policy enforcement, firmware updates, and AI-driven monitoring. IT teams can manage distributed enterprise networks from a single interface, gain predictive insights, simplify scaling, and maintain operational consistency across multiple sites. Cloud-based analytics and reporting reduce troubleshooting time, improve compliance, and enable proactive network management.

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability:

The CX 6200M supports Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) and intelligent power management to reduce energy consumption during low traffic periods. This lowers operational costs, reduces carbon footprint, and contributes to environmentally sustainable networking, without compromising performance or availability.

Future-Ready Scalability:

With multi-gig PoE+, high-speed 10GbE uplinks, EVPN-VXLAN overlays, VSF stacking, and advanced Layer 3 routing, the CX 6200M is designed for next-generation enterprise networks. It is optimized for Wi-Fi 6/6E access, IoT devices, high-density office floors, hybrid cloud environments, and multi-tenant campus deployments, offering a scalable, secure, and future-proof access layer solution.

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