New QFX10000 Switch Line with Purpose-Built
Silicon and New Junos Fusion for the Data Center Ensure Simpler
Network Design and Long-Term Investment Protection
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), the industry leader in network
innovation, today at its 2015 Innovation Showcase introduced the
QFX10000 line of spine switches and the new Junos Fusion® for data
centers to provide industry-leading network scale and automation
capabilities. The new offerings are designed to help public and
private cloud customers, as well as traditional IT data centers
deploy small to Internet-scale networks. The QFX10000 are the first
data center switches powered by Juniper’s new Q5 chip, a
purpose-built ASIC that enables unprecedented performance, port
density and scale to grow cloud networks as business demands.
As organizations place more of their business assets,
intellectual property and applications in public and private data
centers and clouds, the network needs to scale rapidly and
seamlessly to keep up with business growth. This is why data center
networks are quickly outstripping the scale of 10G and 40G
interfaces and moving to 100G networks. According to Dell’Oro1,
spending on 100GE capable networking equipment is expected to grow
from just over $100M in 2014 to nearly $8 billion in 2019.
To address this challenge, the QFX10000 line of switches offers
customers industry-leading 10, 40 and 100GE port density, as well
as superior performance and total system scale. Together with the
openness and automation capabilities in the Junos operating system,
the new switches will ensure Juniper’s customers can seamlessly
scale their clouds and data centers while extracting maximum value
from their network infrastructure well into the future.
QFX10000 Line Highlights
The QFX10000 line and Junos Fusion for data centers are the
latest addition to Juniper Networks® MetaFabric™
architecture and can be deployed in traditional multi-tier
networks, IP and Ethernet fabrics as well as fully virtualized
networks to give customers complete deployment flexibility. The
QFX10000 collapses spine, core and data center edge capabilities
into a single platform, significantly reducing network complexity
and CapEx.
This new line extends Juniper’s successful QFX Series portfolio
to now include large scale, high performance spine switches, in
addition to the QFX5100 line, which is ideally suited for leaf or
smaller spine deployments. Together, Juniper Networks delivers a
comprehensive portfolio that serves all types of data center
networking needs—from enterprise data centers to the largest
private or public clouds.
The QFX10000 line will include three platforms, all of which
leverage the innovative new Q5 chipset.
- Industry Leading Scale and Density
for Long-Term Investment Protection:
- The QFX10002 is the industry’s most
compact 100GE spine switch, delivered in a fixed configuration
2-rack unit form-factor with the ability for customers to upgrade
seamlessly from 40GE to 100GE within the same switch. Additionally,
it offers 2 to 4 times the system and 5 to 10 times the logical
scale of competitors’ larger and power hungry switches, resulting
in simple, efficient network designs and reduced OpEx.
- The QFX10008 is a modular, eight slot
chassis that delivers ground breaking 100GE port density and up to
48Tbps of total system capacity.
- The QFX10016 will deliver unprecedented
system capacity of up to 96Tbps, combined with leading port density
in a powerful 16-slot chassis.
- Purpose-built Q5 Chip Delivers
Unparalleled Performance for Cloud Switches:
- The Q5 ASIC sits at the heart of the
new QFX10000 switch line and offers deep telemetry capabilities
that boost the analytics and automation of the QFX10000 line.
- With deep buffers and an architecture
that supports diverse, demanding applications, the Q5 ASIC offers
reliable performance, scalable virtualization for SDN, and logical
scale for applications such as big data, video and IP storage.
- The Q5 ASIC employs hybrid memory cube
technology, a highly advanced capability not found in merchant
silicon.
- Open and Automation-Enabled Software
Architecture:
- Junos Fusion for data centers is a
flexible, open architecture that shares common switching building
blocks with QFabric System. It enables coherency through automation
and manages the entire data center as a single network rather than
individual network elements.
- Junos Fusion makes it easy to automate
the turn-up and configuration of new networks and reduces the risk
of configuration errors. In conjunction with EVPN/VxLAN, it
simplifies application placement across multiple layers of the
network.
- The QFX product line features
enhancements to the Junos DevOps feature suite that allow customers
to write custom applications in any programming language to
interact with Junos.
- The new switch line is designed to make
network management and provisioning simple and automated, with
support for a highly diverse set of automation and orchestration
tools, including Junos Space Network Director as well as industry
tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and OpenStack.
- Integration with Juniper’s Cloud
Analytics Engine automates network troubleshooting and analysis to
reduce operational expenses and maximize efficiency of the
network.
The new switches will be delivered in sequence, with the first
platform, the QFX10002, available in Q2 2015.
Additional 2015 Innovation Showcase News Highlights
- Juniper today unveiled an
enhanced Converged Supercore®, which includes new custom silicon,
updates to the PTX router and expanded SDN capabilities
via the NorthStar Controller. With these new innovations, Juniper
will deliver the industry’s most powerful and optimized core
routing platform available to enable service providers to
better connect a world amid explosive and unpredictable bandwidth
demands.
- Juniper also announced the availability
of Express Path, an optimization capability for the SRX5000 Series
Services Gateways that will dramatically boost throughput, reduce
latency and improve session scalability for enterprises and service
providers. This new technology enables the SRX firewall to keep
pace with the massive volumes of data traffic on high-performance
networks.
Supporting Quotes
"Network performance, automation and scale are key
priorities for Equinix, and specifically for our cloud
interconnection solution – Equinix Cloud Exchange. With the
increasing number of enterprises moving to the cloud, coupled with
security and performance concerns, it's imperative that Cloud
Exchange and its underlying technology, the Equinix Programmable
Network, are based on a highly scalable and automated network
architecture. As a valued network provider to Equinix, we're
excited to see that Juniper Networks is constantly innovating to
meet the expanding network demands of its customers through
its latest QFX Series switches."- Ihab Tarazi, chief
technology officer, Equinix
"The proliferation and continuing growth of cloud workloads is
driving the need for the next generation of datacenter
infrastructure. IDC has found that enterprise and service provider
expenditures on infrastructure to deliver cloud services will reach
$65 billion in 2017. To accommodate this growing wave of cloud
services, datacenter spine switches will have to support 100GbE at
high port densities and at scale. At the same time, they will be
called upon to feature increasingly sophisticated software
capabilities, including programmability, automated management, and
advanced analytics. With the release of the QFX10000 line and other
key automation and architecture building blocks, Juniper is looking
to meet these cloud-driven requirements for brains and brawn in
datacenter spine switching.”- Brad Casemore, research director,
Datacenter Networks at IDC
"With the introduction of the QFX10000 line based on the new Q5
chip, Juniper Networks has significantly raised the industry bar in
terms of network scale, density and performance. The addition of
this new switch line further enhances our existing QFX Series
portfolio by providing our customers with complete choice through
our open, flexible and highly scalable solutions that serve
traditional enterprise data centers to the largest cloud
environments.”- Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and
general manager, Juniper Development and Innovation at Juniper
Networks
“As a leading supplier of data center switches, today’s
announcement of the QFX10000 line of switches will be an
outstanding addition to our data center and cloud switch product
portfolio and will be a solid revenue generator for us. More
importantly, the QFX10000 line, which incorporates the new Q5 chip,
coupled with Junos Fusion for data centers is the kind of
innovation we expect from Juniper and we expect it to benefit our
customers by providing them with automated, highly scalable network
solutions.”- Leon de Keijzer, chief executive officer, Infradata
Group
Additional Resources
- Blog: Juniper Unveils 2015 Innovations
in Routing, Switching and Security by Jonathan Davidson
- Blog: QFX10000: When Faster is Not Fast
Enough by Brendan Hayes
- Video: Juniper Networks QFX10000 Data
Center and Cloud Switches
- Press Release: Juniper Networks
Innovation Showcase Features New Lineup of Breakthrough-Performance
Networking Products
- Juniper Networks QFX Series of
Switches:
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/qfx-series/
- Juniper.net Community:
www.juniper.net/community
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1 Dell’Oro Group, Ethernet Switch Market Update Q3 2014
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