QFabric System0 pages
DATASHEET
QFABRIC SYSTEM
Product Overview
Modern data centers demand scale,
performance, flexibility, and control—
along with reductions in total cost of
ownership (TCO). Juniper Networks
QFabric architecture is a revolutionary
approach that provides a foundation
for cloud-ready virtualized data
center network environments.
Juniper Networks QFabric System
is the cornerstone of the QFabric
architecture—a purpose-built solution
that allows the creation of highperformance, scalable, cost-effective,
dynamic, and easy to manage large
enterprise IT or service provider cloud
data centers.
Product Description
Juniper Networks® QFabric™ System is the only fabric solution that delivers any-to-any
connectivity and simplified operations, making it the ideal architectural foundation for
virtualized data centers today and for the next decade. It is a scalable, high-performance,
non-blocking, and easy-to-manage fabric that enables traditional Layer 2 and Layer 3
connectivity along with virtualization and convergence. The standards-based QFabric
System is completely interoperable and seamlessly integrates with customers’ existing
data center environments, allowing them to easily migrate traditional tiered networks to
a single tier QFabric architecture that connects compute, storage, network, and services
resources as extensions of a low latency network.
QFabric technology enables customers to maximize the performance of their data centers
and simplify their network operations. By providing direct connectivity and predictable
high performance at scale between any two ports in the fabric, common changes in
the data center such as adding capacity, virtual machine mobility, or deploying new
applications can be achieved quickly and easily.
Two QFabric System models are available:
•t The QFX3000-M QFabric System, designed for mid-tier, satellite, and container data
center environments, supports from 48 to 768 10GbE ports, delivering the simplicity, agility,
and performance benefits of QFabric architecture in a space optimized form factor. The
QFX3000-M is ideal for High Performance Computing environments, Big Data Hadoop
clusters, and back-end business applications, and it provides investment protection by
allowing customers to easily scale to a larger QFabric system deployment as demands for
10GbE grow.
•t The QFX3000-G QFabric System, designed for large enterprises, service providers, and
cloud data center environments, scales to support up to 6,144 10GbE ports in a single
device. The QFX3000-G is ideal for cloud (IaaS, SaaS), large enterprise IT data center
(business applications, data analytics), and High Performance Computing (grid computing,
data modeling, scientific research) environments.
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