HPE Aruba U4LC2E 4-Year 4-Hour Exchange Service

Protect critical switching infrastructure with 4-hour exchange coverage built for supported HPE 5820 platforms. This 4-year Foundation Care service is designed for teams that need predictable recovery when a switch failure threatens user access, application performance, or site connectivity. With depot-based exchange and replacement support, the service helps shorten the gap between fault detection and restored operation. That matters in environments where access-layer switches carry essential traffic for branch offices, campus networks, and distributed enterprise sites. Instead of waiting through a standard return cycle, teams can move directly to a defined replacement process. The service supports HPE 5820-14XG-SFP+, 5820-24XG-SFP+, 5820AF-24XG, 5820X-14XG-SFP+, and 5820X-24XG-SFP+ models. For organizations standardizing on these platforms, the value is not just coverage — it is operational certainty. You get a service model aligned to the hardware footprint already in place, with a response window that reflects the cost of network downtime. For procurement and operations teams, this is the kind of support plan that justifies itself in the first incident avoided or resolved faster.