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HPE GreenLake for Networking is a comprehensive network as a service (NaaS) offering that allows you to consume the HPE Aruba Networking market-leading Edge Services Platform (ESP) in a cloud-like way.

Acquire and deploy the latest technology and use cases faster and more efficiently. Overcome traditional budgetary obstacles by combining all required hardware, software, and services in a single monthly subscription with no up-front capital expenditures required. Optimize network performance and security by gaining deeper insight into the network environment. Decommission unneeded network devices securely and sustainably.


HPE GreenLake for Networking service packs are modular unitized networking service offerings. Each Service Pack consists of the required HPE Aruba Networking hardware, software, and service components for the specific use case.

  • Overview

    Service Packs

    HPE GreenLake for Networking offers network-as-a-service (NaaS) experience leveraging the breadth of HPE Aruba Networking solutions with a flexible way to consume network infrastructure via monthly subscription versus an up-front capital expenditure.


    Service Structure

    HPE GreenLake for Networking solutions are enabled using modular “Service Packs.” Each Service Pack consists of the required HPE Aruba Networking hardware (“Systems”), software, and service components for the specific use case. Service Packs are delivered as a monthly subscription invoiced in advance.

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HPE GreenLake for Networking Service Packs Components and Use Cases

Core Features

Service Packs

Includes the required HPE Aruba Networking Systems, software, and service components for the specific use cases of the product solutions.


Consumption

  • Term duration: The subscription duration or Service Pack Term is either 36 or 60 months with monthly billing.
  • Flex up: Customers can flex up by placing additional Service Pack orders that have their own respective 36− or 60−months Service Pack Terms.
  • End of term: Approximately 12 months prior to the expiry of the Service Pack Term, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide end of the Service Pack Term options to extend month−to−month, renew, or return.

Customer Experience Management (CEM)

CEM service assists in service delivery and provides relevant information to the designated partner or customer (or both) throughout the consumption terms. CEM deliverables are based on the total contract value and are as follows:

  • − Digital experience assists in all phases of the service management lifecycle and is available throughout the length of the Service Pack term. The digital experience includes access to the HPE Aruba Networking Service Manager (ASM) portal, which provides relevant, up−to−date information about the network infrastructure as well as access to expertise via the “Ask CEM” function.
  • − In addition to the digital experience described above, contracts exceeding $1M in total contract value may also receive additional HPE resources, who will work with a designated partner or customer (or both) to assist in service delivery during all phases of the service lifecycle and throughout the Service Pack term.

Support

HPE provides a standard support level for all components included in the Service Packs.

  • Standard Features

    Solution Catalog

    The HPE GreenLake for Networking provides the following categories of Service Packs.


    Wireless

    Provides WLAN access service at customer sites, including guest Wi-Fi access within a limited area. Provides customer device endpoints with WLAN connectivity and performance to the WAN edge CPE at a site, on the internet, at customer resources, and on any cloud in accordance with applicable design standards.


    Wired

    Provides physical wired network switching infrastructure service to link together computers, printers, specialty equipment, and peripheral equipment within a defined area, such as a site. Provides customer device endpoints with wired connectivity and performance to the WAN edge customer premises equipment (CPE) at a site, on the internet, at customer resources, and on any cloud in accordance with applicable design standards.


    SD-Branch

    The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-Branch solution centrally automates the deployment, management, and operation of wireless, wired, and WAN infrastructure under a single, software-defined framework.


    SD-WAN

    The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect portfolio power a self-driving wide area network for cloud-first enterprises. The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform enables enterprises to improve application performance and dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of building a WAN by leveraging broadband to connect users to applications. Additionally, HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise provides a secure network foundation for zero trust and SASE frameworks.


    HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight

    Provides performance monitoring solution to validate network health and user experience through synthetic testing. UXI assumes the role of an end user, evaluating the performance, connectivity, and responsiveness of network services as well as internal and external applications.


    Network Policy

    HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager, part of the HPE Aruba Networking 360 Secure Fabric, provides role- and device-based secure network access control for IoT, BYOD, corporate devices, as well as employees, contractors, and guests across any multivendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure.


    Core Services Feature Details

    Consumption terms

    •  Term duration: The subscription or Service Pack Term is either a minimum 36 or 60 months with monthly invoicing in advance. A Service Pack Term begins upon the earlier of 1) the activation of the Service Pack by the Customer or 2) the 31st day from the next business day from shipment date of the Systems in the Service Pack to the customer’s or partner’s specified ship-to address in the order.
    • − Flex up: To support the growth of the customer’s expanding network needs, customers can flex up by placing additional Service Pack orders as per standard Service Pack Term durations of 36 or 60 months.
    • − End of term: Approximately 12 months prior to the expiration of the Service Pack Term, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide end of the Service Pack Term options to extend month-to-month, renew, or return.
      • • Extend: Extend existing contract month-to-month subject to the Systems in the Service Pack not being “end of support” (Automatic default in the event of no option being selected.)
      • • Renew: Renew the contract for another minimum 36 or 60 months with an option to refresh technology—Return: Return the Service Packs to cancel the service

CEM

CEM service assists in service delivery and provides relevant information throughout the consumption terms. CEM deliverables are based on the total contract value and as listed as follows.

  • − Digital experience assists in all phases of the service lifecycle and is available throughout the length of the Service Pack term. The digital experience includes access to the HPE Aruba Networking Service Manager (ASM) portal, which provides relevant, up-to-date information about the network infrastructure as well as access to expertise via the “Ask CEM” function.
  • Digital experience includes the following:
    • • User and site onboarding
      • Supports partner or customer (or both) by providing relevant information to design and deploy Service Packs including the checklist of recommended activities.
    • • Access to HPE Aruba Networking Support Portal (ASP) and HPE Aruba Networking Service Manager (ASM) and demo videos on how to use it.
    • • Enable Inventory collection for reporting.
      • Provides designated partner or customer (or both) with information on how to add the inventory data into ASM and generate relevant reports. Also, provide Contextualized product advisories for security, end of life, end of development, and end of support report based on collected inventory access to product advisories for security, end of life, end of development and end of support are available to the user.
    • • Ask CEM: Provides access to expertise to answer service-related questions
      • Digital method to provide Service Pack related information to designated partner or customer (or both) inquiries.
  • − In addition to the digital experience, contracts exceeding $1M in total contract value may also receive additional HPE resources, who will work with a designated partner or customer (or both) to assist in service delivery during all phases of the service lifecycle and throughout the Service Pack term. This may include the following:
    • • Kick-off meeting to go through the predefined RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) and associated work activities.
    • • Service planning meeting to define metrics relevant to the customer for network operations.
    • • Review customer’s as-built document for best practices and define metrics relevant to the customer for network operations so that, there is a baseline and opportunity for continual service improvement based on metrics defined.
    • • ASM and ASP detailed information walkthrough workshop to go through the ASM and ASP and answer any questions relevant to the customer deployment including the ASM reports.
    • • Escalation matrix that defines when escalation should occur and who should handle each escalation level. This is the operational RACI that provides the details on who to contact based on severity and priority of the issue.
    • • Conduct Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings to cover
    • • Inventory reports and defined metrics.
    • • Reporting lifecycle and operational metrics.
    • • Customer success plan implementation status.

Notes:

− Assigned HPE resources are available remotely only on regular HPE workdays (excluding weekend days and HPE holidays) during country specific HPE standard business hours.

− CEM does not include Intelligent Operations (IO) and service-level agreements (SLAs).

− Total order value is based on per end-customer.

Service Limitations

  • − These services apply to Service Packs only and do not extend to the modification of any configurations of any equipment that is not part of the HPE GreenLake for networking.
  • − Services are delivered in English only.
  • − HPE may use resources outside the country of purchase for the delivery of these services.
  • − All Service Packs may be included in the CEM service; however, some HPE Aruba Networking products are not capable of being monitored and managed by the ASM platform.
  • − Orders are by default single country. Service Packs are shipped when available and Service Pack Terms may not be co-terminus.
  • − Not All Service Packs include HPE Aruba Networking Central License.
  • Configuration Information

    Ordering and Invoicing Information

    • − Availability of Service Packs may vary according to local resources and may be restricted to eligible products and geographic locations. To obtain further information or to order HPE GreenLake for networking, contact the HPE Aruba Networking customer success manager or local HPE Aruba Networking authorized partner, or sales representative.
    • − Invoicing shall be monthly in advance immediately following the commencement of the first Service Pack Term.

    Customer Responsibilities

    Service packs customer is accountable and responsible for the following:

    • − Protecting HPE’s ownership interest in the Service Packs by:
      • • Ensuring the affixing at time of deployment, any marking supplied by HPE evidencing HPE’s ownership
      • • Using due care to maintain the Service Packs in good working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted
      • • Not relocating any service packs into a different country from that of the customer’s ship-to address country and not relocating any Service Packs once deployed, without working with HPE Aruba Networking Customer Success Manager and obtaining HPE’s consent
      • • Not making any modifications to the Service Packs
      • • Keeping the Service Packs in safe custody and control, free from damage and free from any liens or encumbrances from the date of delivery to customer locations until the Service Packs are returned to HPE.
      • • Insuring or self-insuring the Service Packs from loss or destruction
      • • Deinstalling the Service Packs and returning the Service Packs within 15 calendar days of expiration or termination of the applicable Service Pack Term, in the same condition as when delivered (including resetting and deletion of all customer data in all such service packs)—ordinary wear and tear excepted and freight prepaid and insured to the destination identified by HPE.
    • − Providing appropriate facilities for the Service Packs, including but not limited to
      • • Floor and rack space
      • • Electricity
      • • Physical security
      • • Network cabling
      • • Network for both LAN and WAN connectivity and bandwidth
    • − Notifying HPE if the Service Packs in an environment that poses a potential hazard to the good and continued function of the Service Packs.
    • − Being accountable for all current-state and future-state network architectures, designs, integration projects, and others, with respect to the HPE Aruba Networking network environment supported by the Service Packs.
    • − Adhering to licensing terms and conditions regarding the use of any HPE Aruba Networking SaaS and tools (for example, ASM platform) provided to facilitate the delivery of the services, as applicable.

Models

The nine new edge connectivity service offerings include:

Description

SKU

HPE GreenLake for NaaS Network Policy Service Pack

S1F99AAS

Wired Access aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wired Access Service Pack

JN036AAS

Wired Core aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wired Core Service Pack

JN037AAS

Wired Aggregation aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wired Aggregation Service Pack

JN038AAS

Wireless Indoor aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wireless Indoor Service Pack

JN039AAS

Wireless Outdoor aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wireless Outdoor Service Pack

JN040AAS

Wireless Remote aaS

HPE GreenLake for Wireless Remote Service Pack

JN041AAS

UXI aaS

HPE GreenLake for User Experience Insight Service Pack

JN042AAS

SD-Branch aaS

HPE GreenLake for SD-Branch Service Pack

JN043AAS

  • Technical Specifications

Wireless

Provides WLAN access service at customer sites, including guest Wi-Fi access within a limited area. Provides customer device endpoints with WLAN connectivity and performance to the WAN edge CPE at a site, on the internet, at customer resources, and on any cloud in accordance with applicable design standards.

Service Attributes

Wireless Indoor

Wireless Outdoor

Wireless Remote

Service description

Provides indoor wireless connective across mid, high, and ultra-high performance and density use cases

Provides outdoor wireless connectivity in high-density environments

Provides remote wireless connectivity for connecting remote sites—ideal for hospitality, branch, and teleworker deployments

Environment

Indoor

Outdoor

Indoor

Performance density

Mid, high, and ultra-high density

High-density

Low-density

Wireless standard

Wi-Fi 6/6E

Wi-Fi 6

Wi-Fi 6

Speed

7.8 Gbps maximum

3 Gbps maximum

1.5 Gbps maximum

Hardware upgrades/options

Available

Available

Available

Use cases supported

General coverage, campus, office spaces, training, meeting facilities, hospitals, and warehouses

High-density outdoor environment

Hospitality, branch, and teleworker

Hardware Defaults

Access Point

HPE Aruba Networking 510 Series

HPE Aruba Networking 570 Series

HPE Aruba Networking 500H Series

Power

Default—PoE

Default—PoE

Default—PoE

Mounting bracket

Included

Included

Included

Software

Operating system

Included

Included

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Central Foundation

Included

Included

Included

Other feature licenses

Not included

Not included

Not included

Services

Product support

NBD exchange parts only

NBD exchange parts only

NBD exchange parts only

CEM

Included

Included

Included

ASM

Access included

Access included

Access included

Installation and operations

Not included

Not included

Not included

Wired

Provides physical wired network switching service to link together computers, printers, specialty equipment, and peripheral equipment within a defined area, such as a site. Provides customer device endpoints with wired connectivity and performance to the WAN edge CPE at a site, on the internet, at customer resources, and on any cloud in accordance with applicable design standards.

Service Attributes

Wired Access

Wired Aggregation

Wired Core

Service description

Provides wired connectivity for network access layer connections

Provides wired connectivity for network access, aggregation, and core deployments

Provides wired connectivity for high performance, scale, and bandwidth deployments

Environment

Indoor

Indoor

Indoor

Switching

Layer 3

Layer 3

Layer 3

Hardware upgrades/options

Available

Available

Not available

Use cases supported

Ideal for enterprise branch offices and campus networks, as well as SMBs

Ideal for enterprise network access, aggregation, core, and data center top of rack (ToR) deployments

Ideal for use from edge access to core and into the data center, including spine-leaf architectures and EVPN-VXLAN fabrics

Hardware Defaults

Switch

HPE Aruba Networking CX 6200 Switch Series

HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 Switch Series

HPE Aruba Networking CX 6400 Switch Series

Form factor

Fixed

Fixed

Modular chassis

Access port count | speed

24 | 100M/1GbE

24 |

100M/1GbE/2.5GbE/5GbE

240 | 1GbE/2.5GbE/5GbE

Uplink port count | speed

4 | 1GbE/10GbE SFP+

4 | 1GbE/10GbE to 25GbE (SFP+)

4 | 10GbE/25GbE

Power

AC

AC

AC

Transceivers

2 x 100m MMF

2 x 100m MMF

None included

Mounting bracket

Included

Included

Included

Software

Operating system

Included

Included

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Central Foundation

Included

Included

Included

Other feature licenses

Not included

Not included

Not included

Services

Product support

NBD exchange parts only

NBD exchange parts only

NBD exchange parts only

CEM

Included

Included

Included

ASM

Access included

Access included

Access included

Installation and operations

Not included

Not included

Not included

SD-Branch

Centrally automates the deployment, management, and operation of wireless, wired, and WAN infrastructure under a single, software-defined framework.

Service description

Provides software-defined, enterprise-grade network services, including management, forwarding, security, and configuration. The controller integrates policy enforcement for WLAN, LAN, and WAN. Functionality from WLAN Gateway ranging up to Advanced SD-Branch capabilities can be enabled through HPE Aruba Networking Central’s subscription license model.

Environment

Indoor

Firewall throughput

12 Gbps minimum

Hardware upgrades/options

Available

Use cases supported

Large branch and campus / midsize campus / high-density large campus

Port count | speed

2 x SFP+ | 1G

Hardware Defaults

Gateway

HPE Aruba Networking 7200 Series

Power

AC

Mounting bracket

Included

Transceivers

2 x 1G SFP

Software

Operating system

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Central Foundation

Included

License

Controller per AP capacity license

2 included

Other feature licenses

Not included

Services

Product support

NBD exchange parts only

CEM

Included

ASM

Access included

Installation and operations

Not included

SD Branch

SD-Branch

The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect portfolio powers a self-driving wide area network for cloud-first enterprises.

Service Attributes

SD-WAN Hub

SD-WAN Edge

Service description

The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise EC-M-H, EC-L-H, EC-XL-H, and EC-XL-H-10G are 1U rack mountable hub gateway platforms that serve to build an SD-WAN fabric using zero touch provisioning. They support MPLS, 4G/LTE/5G and internet-based hybrid WAN transport services and a control plane that is automated and secured by the HPE Aruba Networking WAN Orchestrator.

The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise EC-US, EC-XS, EC-S, and EC-10104 are ultra-compact form factor, thin edge branch gateway appliances that serve to build an SD-WAN fabric using zero touch provisioning. They support MPLS, 4G/5G/LTE and internet-based hybrid WAN transport services and a control plane that is automated and secured by the HPE Aruba Networking WAN Orchestrator.

Environment

Hub / Data center

Edge / Remote site

Bandwidth Licensing Options

50 Mbps to 10 Gbps (bidirectional)

10 Mbps to 3 Gbps (bidirectional)

Hardware upgrades/options

Available

Available

Use cases supported

Enterprise SD-WAN Use Cases

Enterprise SD-WAN Use Cases

Port count | speed

2 x SFP+ | 1G

Hardware Defaults

HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise Gateway

HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise EC-M-H

HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Enterprise EC-10104

Power

Default AC 1+1 Redundant

Default AC Single Adapter

Mounting Bracket

Included

Included

Software

Orchestrator

Included

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Central

N/A

N/A

Feature Upgrade Option

Available

Available

License

License Upgrade Option

Available

Available

Services

Product support

NBD exchange parts only

NBD exchange parts only

CEM

Included

Included

ASM

Access included

Access included

Installation and operations

Not included

Not included

UXI

Provides performance monitoring solution to validate network health and user experience through synthetic testing. UXI assumes the role of an end user, evaluating the performance, connectivity, and responsiveness of network services as well as internal and external services.

Service description

Provides network service testing (AP association, network authentication, DHCP, DNS, captive portal) and internal and external service testing of applications using synthetic test templates that measure latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput, VoIP mean opinion scores or web application transactions. Provides a cloud-based dashboard for the service desk that can be used to triage incidents and monitor service performance. Includes one sensor; each sensor will measure up to four networks (wired and/or wireless).

Environment

Indoor

Use cases supported

Ideal for use in every industry: retail, workplace, healthcare, hospitality, branch offices,

education, large public venues, manufacturing

Hardware upgrades/options

Available

Use cases

Device association, end-to-end app responsiveness, UXI agent for Zebra, incident detection, web application testing

Hardware Defaults

Sensor

UXI G6 sensor

Gigabit Ethernet

10/100/1,000 Gigabit Ethernet

Power

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Mounting bracket

Included

Software

UXI Cloud subscription

Included

Other feature licenses

Not included

Services

Product support

NBD exchange parts only

CEM

Included

ASM

Access included

Installation and operations

Not included

Network Policy

A platform that provides role- and device-based network access control for any user across any wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure.

Service description

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager, part of the HPE Aruba Networking 360 Secure Fabric, provides role- and device-based secure network access control for IoT, BYOD, corporate devices, as well as employees, contractors, and guests across any multivendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure.

Environment

On-premises

Use cases supported

Ideal for use in IoT, BYOD, Corporate, Guest

Hardware upgrades/options

N/A

Framework and Protocol Support

RADIUS, RADIUS Dynamic Authorization, TACACS+, web authentication, SAML v2.0 RadSec (TLS encoded RADIUS)

Hardware defaults

Virtual Appliance (hardware are not included)

Virtual appliances are supported on VMware vSphere® Hypervisor (VMware ESXi™), Microsoft Hyper-V, CentOS KVM, Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure.

Power

N/A

Mounting bracket

N/A

Software

Operating System

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Central

HPE Aruba Networking Central is not supported. HPE Aruba Networking Collector Lite is included and required to export data to HPE Aruba Networking Services Manager.

Other Software

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Access, HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Entry, HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Onboard, HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass OnGuard

Other Feature Licenses?

Optional

Services

Product Support

HPE Foundation Care

Customer Experience Management

Included

HPE Aruba Networking Service Manager

Access included

Installation & Operations

Not Included

  • Summary of Changes

Date

Version History

Action

Description of Change

27-Feb-2026

Changed

Rebranding applied to QuickSpecs

21-Jan-2025

Changed

Technical Specifications section was updated.

16-Dec-2024

Changed

Technical Specifications section was updated.

12-Feb-2024

Changed

Networking product names were updated

10-Jul-2023

Changed

Configuration Information section was updated.

05-Jun-2023

Changed

Standard Features and Technical Specifications sections were updated.

07-Nov-2022

Changed

Descriptions were updated for SKUs in Configuration Information section.

03-Oct-2022

New

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