802.3bz and 802.3bt

[marvin33]

Does Aruba plan to offer  802.3bt capable devices ?

is there any plan to have firmware upgrades on any of the existing HW to support these ?

 with regards to multi-gigabit (Aruba calles this smart rate ) I could only find 2930M that supports this :-

 "Models with 24 ports of HPE Smart Rate with IEEE 802.3bz"

https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_2930MSwitchSeries.pdf

[parnassus]

AFAIK, speaking about new products to come, there were rumors about two new Aruba 2930M models supporting IEEE 802.3bt with up to 60W of PoE.

With regards to IEEE 802.3bz check this Aruba paper about Aruba switch series actually supporting HPE Smart Rate multi-Gigabit (1, 2.5, 5 and 10 Gbps) twisted-pair network interfaces (on Frontplane fixed ports or on module ports for modular switches, as on Aruba 5400R zl2 with specific v3 zl2 Modules).