BrandPost: Do your campus core switches deserve more?
By: Sue Gillespie, Senior Product Marketing Manager, HPE Aruba Networking.
Creating a secure, high-performance, always-on network that’s designed for operational efficiency and growth begins with a modern infrastructure—and depends on campus core switches to be the beating heart of enterprise connectivity. Because of this key role, campus core switch capabilities directly impact user and device experience, network security, and IT operational efficiency.
What is a campus core switch?
These are typically Ethernet switches that manage traffic coming to and from aggregation switches, the wide area network (WAN), and the internet via router or gateway. Network architectures often deploy either 2-tier collapsed core approaches with a single switch playing the role of both core switch and aggregation (distribution) switch or a 3-tier approach with separate core and aggregation switches. Here’s an example of a 3-tier network from our ESP Campus Design Validated Solution Guide: