The HPE Aruba Networking 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 1m Direct Attach Copper Cable and Aruba 10G SFP+ to SFP+ 3m DAC Cable are high-performance 10 Gbps SFP+ passive twinax Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables engineered for point-to-point interconnects between SFP+ ports on HPE Aruba CX Series switches, delivering low-latency, low-power 10GBASE-CU connectivity over short-reach links with 1 m and 3 m lengths; compliant with SFP+ MSA and IEEE 802.3 standards, these cables provide reliable, cost-effective in-rack or adjacent-rack 10 Gbit/s links between CX switches, servers, and storage without optics, minimizing power draw and simplifying deployment in data center and enterprise environments