HP ProCurve

Applications within the ecosystem can be implemented on standalone appliances, or on industry-standard servers such as a HP Reliant server, or as ProCurve ONE Integrated applications hosted on the Services Module.In all three implementation cases, ProCurve's product portfolio forms the open-standards based network supporting ProCurve ONE Solutions.

Benefits of HP ProCurve data center solutions

Organizations face increased pressure to support growth and innovation. Challenged with the need to accelerate business growth, cut costs and mitigate risks, organizations look for IT solutions to meet these needs. If you're looking to maximize business outcomes, HP ProCurve data center products and solutions offer:

• Choice and flexibility: HP ProCurve provides consistency and interoperability across existing network investments and leverages the capabilities of best-in-class application providers to help improve performance and manage cost.
• Automation: ProCurve offers policy-based automated provisioning with auditable, visible and accountable processes.
• Control: ProCurve solutions provide provisioning technologies that formalize workflow activities and provide a consistent network management interface with seamless end-to-end connectivity.
• Green initiative: ProCurve data center solutions support state-of-the-art facility cooling architectures, built-in power save options and virtualization methodologies that promote higher server utilization rates, reducing both the power and space requirements in the data center.
• Manage operational expenses: HP ProCurve is attractive in terms of both acquisition and maintenance costs – solutions help to reduce the complexity of planning, deploying, and managing with most products backed by ProCurve's industry-leading warranty.
• Advanced technology: ProCurve's extensive product line is engineered to HP quality standards, with many powered by ProVision ASICs, including ProCurve's family of datacenter offerings, which enable next-generation data centers. Most products are backed by ProCurve's industry-leading warranty, service, support and training. In addition, through its Open Networking Ecosystem (ONE) ProCurve enables customers to securely integrate environmentally responsible, best-in-class applications and services into their network.

Unified core-to-edge connectivity

HP ProCurve introduces the 6600 switch series to extend Adaptive Networks to server edge connectivity. With an expansive portfolio of adaptive networking solutions, HP ProCurve enables consistent core-to-edge connectivity that reduces complexity and streamlines your data center infrastructure. Our solution provides the following benefits:

• High Performance: Superior system performance/scalability that allow for non-blocking server edge connectivity and uplinks. Critical networking features such as the ability to enable load balancing with NIC teaming.
• High Availability: Redundant/Resilient Platform – redundant power supplies and fans to allow for redundancy of high failure rate components. Proven Architecture – Based from ASICs and Software of devices that have shipped millions of ports worldwide. High Availability SW features – offers redundancy at L2 & L3
• Unified Core-to-Edge Solution: ProVisio™ ASIC-based architecture and ProCurve unified infrastructure and management that dramatically lowers OPEX.

Adapt to changing business needs

ProCurve has a unique strategy for Voice over IP (VoIP) and Converged Communications, with solutions designed to give customers choice and flexibility. As disparate applications such as physical security and unified communications converge, single-vendor solutions can become unacceptably restrictive. ProCurve's innovative technology and leadership for Open Standards provides the performance and interoperability to support best-of-breed, multi-vendor options. In addition, testing through the ProCurve Alliance validates end-to-end solutions while maintaining customer choice.

An infrastructure for the future

ProCurve's secure networking solutions reduce complexity, increase flexibility and expand your effectiveness to support current and future applications. ProCurve products are engineered to meet HP quality standards and are backed by the ProCurve Lifetime Warranty*.

Flexibility to support growth

ProCurve solutions allow organizations to unify communications and processes over a secure, industry-standard network infrastructure. The benefits of this approach include securing communications through ProCurve ProActive Defense, choice in sourcing solutions from best-practice providers, and the ability to preserve existing investments while expanding infrastructure.

Benefits of HP ProCurve mobility solutions

Many of the world's leading enterprises and institutions have found HP ProCurve mobility solutions broaden the reach and impact of today's business applications. If you're looking to drive productivity, enhance collaboration and streamline processes, HP ProCurve's new wireless products and solutions offer industry-leading choices:

• Reliability: HP ProCurve Wireless LANs have been accessed by more than 40 million unique users across the globe. Our products are engineered to HP quality standards – backed by the ProCurve Lifetime Warranty *.
• Integrated security: ProCurve's ProActive Defense enforces security at the network edge, where users and devices connect. In addition, ProCurve's security solutions include our award-winning intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS), along with Identity Driven Manager and Network Immunity Manager.
• Investment protection: ProCurve designed the industry's first non-blocking wireless network so that you can invest in a solution that easily scales to 802.11n speeds and capacity when you're ready.
• Performance optimization: By distributing intelligence across the WLAN, the ProCurve Mobility Solution consumes up to 98 percent less backbone network bandwidth than competing WLANs.
• Simplified Management: Integrated, easy-to-use management features reduce the time and complexity of planning deploying and operating a wireless LAN.
• Rapid MultiService Application Delivery: HP ProCurve provides the fastest application delivery with the richest, most flexible set of services available.

How our networks mean business

• Reduce total cost of ownership dramatically – including support costs.
• Reduce operational costs by simplifying management and using shared modules and components.
• Flexibly adapt to organizational and application needs, deploying wireless capability when and where you need it in the network.

How our networks mean value

• Reduce stocking and support costs through common modules.
• Unify your wired and wireless solution in a single chassis.
• Reduce training costs through simplified management.
• Control the wireless edge of the network – and host the application – anywhere in the core and edge.

HP ProCurve ONE Services zl Module

The first HP ProCurve product to support the direct integration of applications is the HP ProCurve ONE Services zl Module. This is an Intel-based module with dual 10G interfaces that connect directly into the fabric of ProCurve’s flagship chassis-based switch platforms, the HP ProCurve Switch 5400zl and 8212zl. This integration allows the deployment of the same services across the network within the core or in a data-center, at the edge of the campus LAN, or out in a branch office.

The Services Module incorporates a secure environment in which only applications that have been tested, certified and downloaded without error will run, helping to maintain application performance, switch security, and network protection from vulnerabilities. Applications come pre-configured in an installation image, which includes the application along with the operating-system which is needed to support the application. In this manner, once installed the solution will behave as a standalone appliance, with the additional benefits of switch integration.