Aruba 7280 Controller

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Product Overview

HPE Aruba Networking 7200 Series Mobility Controllers, Delivering industry-leading network services, maximizes Wi-Fi performance to ensure seamless roaming. It’s perfect for campus WLAN scalability or branch SD-WAN and VPN Concentrator capabilities. the HPE Aruba Networking 7200 Series is designed to support the most demanding large campus networks, with optional SD-WAN capabilities.

High performance, greater scale

Ensuring the highest levels of performance and availability, the 7200 Series delivers seamless L2/L3 roaming for thousands of users or client devices.

Simplify secure access

Easily centralize the configuration of role-based access controls with HPE Aruba Networking’s built-in Policy Enforcement Firewall for Dynamic Segmentation.

Eliminate branch complexity

Deploying with SD-branch software is an affordable way to support multiple WAN connections, including the internet, MPLS, cellular, software-defined role-based policy enforcement, and path optimization.

Features

Ideal for today’s mobile and IoT devices and performance demands

Flexible use cases

Support data centers, public cloud, and SaaS routing by deploying the 7200 Series as a controller with ArubaOS or as a SD-Branch gateway.

Up to 2,048 access points and 100 Gbps of throughput

Providing connectivity for up to 32,728 concurrent users or client devices, the 7200 Series is ideal for the most demanding enterprise, higher education, and large public venue requirements.

Dynamic Segmentation for simplicity and security

Enforcing granular user, device, and application policies over both access points and network switches means there’s no need to configure separate VLANs, ACLs, and subnets.

Supports for Wi-Fi standards

Offering WPA and Enhanced Open as part of 802.11ax, the 7000 provides enhanced security and backwards compatibility.

Machine learning and advanced analytics

AirMatch applies machine learning to automate RF optimization and adapt to changing WLAN conditions, while ClientMatch improves client roaming and resolves sticky client issues.

Table 1. Aruba 7200 Series Controllers Performance and capacity

FEATURES	7205	7210	7220	7240XM	7280
Maximum campus or remote AP licenses	256	512	1,024	2,048	2,048
Maximum concurrent users/devices	8,192	16,384	24,576	32,768	32,768
Maximum VLANs	4,096	4,096	4,096	4,096	4,096
Active firewall sessions	1 million (M)	2M	2M	2M	2M
Concurrent GRE tunnels	4,096	8,192	16,384	32,768	32,768
Concurrent IPsec sessions	8,192	16,384	24,576	32,768	32,768
Concurrent SSL sessions	4,096	8,192	8,192	8,192	8,192
Firewall throughput (Gbps)	12	20	40	40	100
Wired Bridged throughput (Gbps)	12	20	40	40	100
Encrypted throughput 3DES (Gbps)	5	7	25	28	57
Encrypted throughput AES-CBC-256 (Gbps)	5	7	22	30	46
Encrypted throughput AES-CCM (Gbps)	5	7	20	29	75
Encrypted throughput AES-GCM-256 (Gbps)	5	7	26	35	70

Table 2. Aruba 7200 Series Controllers Interfaces and indicators

FEATURES	7205	7210	7220	7240XM	7280
Form factor/footprint	1xRU	1xRU	1xRU	1xRU	1xRU
10/100/1000BASE-T	4xCombo	2xCombo	2xCombo	2xCombo	–
1000BASE-X	4xCombo	2xCombo	2xCombo	2xCombo	–
10G Ports (10G or 1G supported)	2xSFP+	4xSFP+	4xSFP+	4xSFP+	8xSFP+
40G Ports	–	–	–	–	2xQSFP+
USB 2.0	2	1	1	1	1
Management/status LEDs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LINK/ACT and status LEDs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LCD panel and navigation buttons	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Console port	microUSB, RJ-45	microUSB, RJ-45	microUSB, RJ-45	microUSB, RJ-45	microUSB, RJ-45
Out-of-band management port	Yes	No	No	No	Yes