HPE Aruba Networking Central

Elevate your network with AI-native agentic intelligence, self-driving automation, and fortified security—delivering results across branch, campus, data center, and IoT environments.

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AI for networking. Cloud-scale management designed for today and tomorrow.

Experience how HPE Aruba Networking Central uplevels the operator experience with advanced automation and analytics to diagnose and optimize your HPE Aruba Networking devices and scale effortlessly to meet your most demanding use cases.

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Resolve issues before users notice

Accelerate time to resolution with GreenLake copilot. Experience faster troubleshooting and smarter automation with distributed AI models that reason together and autonomously orchestrate network actions.

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Deploy your way

Choose from multiple deployment options designed to support different environments, operational models, and scale requirements—making it easy to order, deploy, and grow with confidence.

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Reduce risk at every connection

Enforce zero trust at the network level with automated access control, identity-aware segmentation, and continuous posture checks, for delivering security that's seamless, scalable, and built into every connection.

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Accelerate network rollouts

Speed up network deployments using consolidated workflows to configure switches, gateways and access points across multiple locations through a single configuration interface.

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Our customers

  • Henkel

    Watch how Henkel reduces setup time from months to 4-8 hours with AI-powered visibility and predictive analytics, which help pre-empt issues and drive innovation, setting a new standard for enterprise networks globally.

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  • Blue Diamond Growers

    Discover how the world's largest almond manufacturers use HPE Aruba Networking Central intelligence to resolve Wi‑Fi issues 50% faster, reducing IT overhead and enhancing user experience. 

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  • University of Redlands

    Explore how this university used plug-and-play deployment to configure their network and proactively resolve issues in real time, cutting troubleshooting time from days to minutes.

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  • Nice Brazil

    Learn how this large multinational benefits from 24/7 monitoring, AI-driven connection insights, and unified management of branch, remote, campus, data center, and IoT networks.

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AI-native networking super-charged with agentic mesh technology

Agentic mesh technology is being actively deployed into HPE Aruba Networking Central, featuring a multi-agent orchestrator that enables AI models to reason and collaborate in real time. This distributed system of AI capabilities drives autonomous actions and adaptive responses through a new GreenLake copilot interface.

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Monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting designed for the AI, IoT and mobility era

Identify and resolve issues in minutes versus hours by enhancing visibility and monitoring with full-stack correlation of network devices, connectivity links, and applications. Take advantage of responsive alerts to ensure your network keeps the business running at peak performance.

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Unlock third-party network observability

Ensure clear visibility and manage diverse network infrastructure with third-party device telemetry collection via HPE OpsRamp Software.

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Flexible deployment options

Enhance security, confidentiality, and compliance with your choice of cloud-delivered, on-prem, as-a-service, or virtual private cloud deployment.

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Plan your on-prem deployment

Choose the right Central On-Premises Platform (COP) options for your environment with an easy ordering guide—covering all COP versions, including the latest version and associated services.

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FAQs

What are the features of HPE Aruba Networking Central?

HPE Aruba Networking Central is a secure, AI-native, self-driving solution for campus and branch networks. Built on a microservices architecture, with flexible deployment options, it unifies day 0/1/2 operations for switching, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, and security. It combines advanced AI, LLMs, and agentic AI with the industry's largest data lake and features integrated network access control at no extra cost.
What are the benefits of using HPE Aruba Networking Central?

HPE Aruba Networking Central accelerates deployment from weeks to hours, improves visibility, reduces network trouble tickets, and removes costly physical security appliances. It transforms networking from reactive to proactive, simplifying operations, lowering costs, and scaling effortlessly to support growing users, devices, and apps, making the network a driver of business success.
Can HPE Aruba Networking Central integrate with other HPE products?

HPE Aruba Networking Central integrates with HPE GreenLake and supports third-party vendors like Pensando Policy and Services Manager, Microsoft Defender, Splunk, etc to enhance management, monitoring, security, and operations. It also enables third-party observability through HPE OpsRamp. APIs and webhooks are also available for added customization.
What is the setup process for HPE Aruba Networking Central?

The setup process starts by activating the service in GreenLake, adding device subscriptions manually or through auto-assignment, and onboarding APs, switches, or gateways using Zero Touch Provisioning or manual registration. Devices are then assigned to groups, configurations applied, and monitoring enabled for full network readiness.
How does HPE Aruba Networking Central enhance network security?

HPE Aruba Networking Central enhances network security by protecting every access, identity, and workload by default. It unifies Network Access Control (NAC), SASE, network authentication, endpoint and app monitoring, applies AI-driven risk assessment, and enforces scalable, zero trust-based microsegmentation. Role-based access control (RBAC), in-built IDS/IPS, and WPA3 insights improve security posture.

What support options are available for HPE Aruba Networking Central users?

Support includes 24x7 priority technical assistance, software updates for HPE Aruba Networking Central and all HPE Aruba Networking managed devices. Optional add-ons include HPE Foundation Care for next-business-day or 4-hour hardware replacement, and HPE Pro Care for dedicated senior TAC engineers and faster case resolution.
What are the AI features of HPE Aruba Networking Central?

HPE Aruba Networking Central combines agentic AI, LLMs, a large experience model (LEM), and billions of data points to deliver self-driving networks, AI-driven root cause analysis, and real-time insights. With Networking Copilot, operators use a natural language, conversational interface to access features, visualize trends, and get solutions—like having an expert on your team.