QFX Series QFabric Switches
High-performance devices deliver Juniper's unique QFabric architecture, supporting thousands of ports within a single-tier data center or cloud network with ultra low latency, high resiliency, and the simplicity of a single switch.
QFabric Architecture Demo
The foundation of Juniper Networks QFabric family of products is the QFX Series—a revolutionary approach that delivers quantum leap improvements in data centre performance, operating costs, and business agility, for enterprises, high-performance computing systems and large-scale cloud providers. The QFX Series implements a single-tier network in the data centre, enabling exponential improvements in speed, scale and efficiency by removing legacy barriers and improving business agility.
The QFX Series includes two product lines:
- Juniper Networks QFX3000 QFabric Switch: Composed of three separate components—QFabric Node, QFabric Interconnect and QFabric Director—the QFX3000 creates a high-performance, ultra-low latency fabric network that unleashes the full power of the data centre. The QFabric Node acts as the entry and exit into the fabric; the QFabric Interconnect is the high-speed transport device for interconnecting QFabric Nodes; and the QFabric Director provides control and management services to deliver a common window for managing all devices as a single device.
- Juniper Networks QFX3500 Switch: The QFX3500 is a standalone 48-port 10GbE top-of-rack switch with four 40GbE uplink ports and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and FC gateway functionality. With a simple software and configuration change, the QFX3500 can also become part of a QFX3000 switch, providing the QFabric Node functionality in the QFabric architecture.
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QFX3000
This highly scalable, high-performance switch delivers a single-layer fabric for the data center network, enabling any-to-any connectivity while improving operations and simplifying manageability. Learn more |
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QFX3500 Switch
High-performance, low-latency, feature-rich L2/L3 switch delivers wire-speed 10GbE throughput and standards-based Fibre Channel I/O convergence capabilities for the most demanding data centre environments while providing an edge-ready solution for Juniper's QFabric architecture. Learn more |
| Feature | Benefit |
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| Performance | The QFabric architecture can scale up to 40 Tbps, providing unprecedented capacity for moving beyond 10GbE at the access layer. In addition, QFabric’s ultra-low deterministic latency provides an order of magnitude improvement over traditional network architectures, making it ideal for supporting latency-sensitive applications, east-west traffic flows, virtualisation, cloud computing, and other high-performance data center initiatives. |
| Management | Presenting itself as a single switch running the Junos operating system, the QFabric architecture greatly simplifies data center management. Fewer switches in the data center translates into significantly less complexity and operational expense, as well as lower power, space, and cooling costs. As a reliable carrier-class solution with no single point of failure and requiring no downtime for reconfiguration and maintenance, the QFabric architecture also maximises network availability. |
| Scale | The QFabric architecture supports a highly efficient "pay-as-you-grow" model that can scale from a few hundred ports to 6,000 ports within a single-tier network. QFX3500 Switches can be introduced into data centers incrementally as top-of-rack devices, interoperating with the current switch infrastructure. Over time, the QFX3500s can be converted to a QFabric Node edge device through a simple software configuration change, allowing customers to transition to a QFabric solution without requiring a wholesale replacement of the existing network. |
| Green solution |
The QFabric architecture is environmentally conscious, allowing enterprises to optimize every facet of the data center network while consuming less power, requiring less cooling, and producing a fraction of the carbon footprint of legacy multi-tiered data center networks. QFabric complies with the following standards:
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