HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch Series. industry's first DPU-enabled switches. delivers a flexible and innovative approach to address the security performance. agility. and scalability demands of both traditional enterprise data centers and emerging distributed. edge and co-located centers of data. The CX 10000 Series is a category of switches that combines the best-of-breed network operating system. HPE Aruba Networking CX switch operating system (AOS-CX). for data center. campus. and edge in addition to the fully programmable DPUs. This allows the switches to deliver software-defined services inline. at scale. with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional L2/L3 switches at a fraction of their TCO. This allows the flexibility to enable service delivery. when deployed as access. leaf top of rack (ToR). or end of row (EoR) in a data center. and potentially in the aggregation layer in campus or edge data center designs.What is